Word: disavower
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...politicians, and the affair had to be canceled. Left-Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, unhappy that Sophia's sister married a Mussolini, sent his regrets; Entertainment Minister Alberto Folchi, aware that Sophia is living in sin with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their 1957 marriage early this year), developed a diplomatic cold. Finally, 1961's best actress had to accept her Oscar at a small reception in her own apartment. "I didn't expect a state reception," said she, "but I had hoped to be honored as an Italian receiving...
...Rome, signed her to something the Italians call a "personal contract," helped shape her career, became her lover, then her husband (in 1957) by proxy marriage in Mexico, then technically her lover again -this year-when bigamy charges pressed by a religious zealot in Milan forced the couple to disavow their marriage. Carlo had been married before, and his divorce, also Mexican, is recognized in Italy by neither church nor state. "I give up," says Sophia. "I'm married, I'm not married...
...fibers cartel," predicted that if the merger went through, "every important chemical company in Britain will ultimately succumb." Last week, Fisons' board accepted Wormald's month-old offer to resign. The split, insisted all hands, was in no way influenced by a demand from I.C.I, that Fisons disavow "Mr. Wormald's views...
...injunction to give up tobacco, dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess-hall fighting has been touched off when they have attempted to impose their dietary laws on other prisoners. Elijah's bizarre version of the Koran is barred in all prisons...
Rule by Kidnap. Kivu, a land of rich highlands and rolling farms once run by Belgians, was easily won. Gizenga simply sent several Jeeploads of troops swooping into Bukavu, Kivu's capital, to negotiate with the wavering Kivu provincial leaders. When the latter refused to disavow Mobutu, the invaders simply kidnaped the conferees-Kivu's provincial president, a couple of his ministers and the local army commander-and hauled them back to Stanleyville to get them out of the way. Suddenly, Kivu had a new provincial boss, who turned out to be another Lumumba crony, former Minister...