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Last week in Genoa some 2,000 visitors passed through the austere Villa Doria, examining and occasionally touching 189 graceful and lustrous stringed instruments, including one cello, 16 violas, 171 violins. The oldest was a small, ornamented Gasparo da Salo, dated 1609; the most famous was Paganini's own powerful Guarneri del Gesu, given to him (by a wealthy Leghorn merchant) on the condition that nobody else would ever perform on it; the most prevalent were modern models patterned closely after Stradivari designs. Because of their popularity among wealthy foreign fiddlers, there were no Strads at all available...
...week's loudest complaint against the constitution rose from Egypt's leading feminist, Dr. Doria Shafik, who declared that it grants "women no right whatsoever" and is a betrayal of written promises wrung from the regime by her 1954 hunger strike...
...sluggers were. Havana police, who had been standing firmly on the official story that the prelate had been hurt in a fall, hastily began a new investigation. Cardinal Arteaga, again wrapped in dignified silence, departed for New York and sailed aboard the Italian liner Andrea Doria for three months' rest and recuperation in Rome...
...Netherlands, there are 1,100,000 tons of ships worth $186 million on order. In Italy the yards turned out 131,951 tons of shipping last year, including the liner Andrea Doria, but they are heavily dependent upon government subsidies and none too efficient. (A U.S. economic expert recommended recently that six of Italy's 15 major shipyards be shut down...
...Stars & Stripes fluttered from the mainmast as Italy's sleek new liner Andrea Doria docked at Naples last week with the first woman envoy ever sent to Italy, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. As the gangplank went down, dignitaries rushed aboard with flowers for the ambassador, and 120 photographers and newspaperman, mostly Italians, followed in a torrent...