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...Vatican thought it had a pretty good case: besides their monthly salary of 41,000 lire ($50), the guards get free quarters, uniforms, food, cigarettes and beer. That makes them better off financially than the average Italian civil servant. Also, unlike the Papal Gendarmes, who maintain order inside Vatican City, they have no police duties.* To avoid discontent, however, the Vatican released the 16 complaining recruits from the terms of their enlistment contracts. It is also giving thought to increasing the allowances of the guards who remain...
...deftness. This week two exhibitions of De Pisis' graceful still lifes, on-the-wing landscapes and gentle portraits were showing simultaneously in Milan and his home town of Ferrara. On view in Rome was his sensitive portrait of French Novelist Colette, which had won him a million-lire Premio Roma...
...expenditures not shown in the budget, France would spend $2,600,000,000 (11% of the gross national product) on defense. A¶fter sitting on its hands for two months, Italy's Senate passed a new defense bill (TIME, March 19) to spend an additional 250 billion lire ($400 million) to modernize the nation's armed forces, bring them up to treaty strength. Communists and their left-wing Socialist allies pleaded and threatened, found themselves outvoted...
...artists were invited to participate, and almost all of them did. In two weeks, some 600,000 people, many of whom had never set foot in an art gallery, saw the show. They bought 70 paintings, at prices ranging from 30,000 to 1,000,000 lire...
...date was March 2, 1944. The Allied Military Government hushed up the accident then because of the adverse effect it would have had on Italian morale; the accident received little publicity after the war. Eventually 300 lawsuits, asking damages of more than one billion lire ($1,600,000), were filed by relatives of the victims. Not until last week, when the cases were pending before the Naples Appellate Court, did the Italian press give wide publicity to the worst accident in Italian railroad history...