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Last week L'Unità folded its once-thriving editions in industrial Turin and Genoa, announced that its sole surviving regional edition in Milan will now serve all three cities-a feat comparable to making over a Pittsburgh daily for readers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Beyond that, the paper was reduced to running a Page One jeremiad by Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, imploring the faithful to dig deep in their pockets to save L'Unità from "extermination...
...Soprano Eugenia Ratti, 22, is the youngest of the current crop of Italian stars. The shapely daughter of a Genoa streetcar conductor, she joined La Scala three years ago, displayed a talent for the soubrette roles of Rossini and Donizetti and has moved some critics to predict that she will surpass Callas both as actress and singer. Her diction is flawless, her voice cool and clear as crystal. Her artistic ideal is Callas, but she has a reservation: "I still have a heart, Callas...
...most exhausting ordeals of her life. Before her sat six facultymen, including experts in English, French and Italian. Behind, a crowd of students waited eagerly to see her perform. They had good reason for wanting to do so: of 750 students at the Interpreters' School, Giovanna Cuirlo of Genoa was the only one found qualified this term to try for the school's highest prize-the conference (or parliamentary) interpreter's certificate...
...Life to Give. In Genoa, Italy. deciding that Mario Mattioli had lied about the length of his compulsory service and remained in the navy an extra year, the Italian government charged him with defrauding it of 730 meals, 1,125 cups of coffee, 2,190 cigarettes, two uniforms, two caps, two pairs of shoes, three pairs of socks, three sets of underwear, seven handkerchiefs...
...Milan's La Scala, Naples' San Carlo, the Rome Opera, Venice's La Fenice, the Comu-nale of Florence, Bologna and Cagliari, Genoa's Carlo Felice, Turin's Regio, Trieste's Verdi, Verona's Arena and Palermo's Massimo...