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Over the Hill? Anquetil can afford to be rude. He is the only cyclist ever to win all three of Europe's top marathon races-the Tour de France, the Giro d'ltalia and the Vuelta a España. He once set a world record by covering 46,159 km. (about 29 miles) in one hour and he has won the Grand Prix des Nations, a kind of World Series of bike racing, seven times. The sport pays him $150,000 a year, and he lives in champagne luxury-beautiful blonde wife, country house near Rouen, Mercedes...
...Rachmaninoff piano-cello sonata. What's more, the musicians' enthusiasm for the series seems to be shared by an Italian concert public long uninterested in chamber music. "One of the most original and happily realized formulas of the festival," glowed Rome's II Giornale d'ltalia. The Italian radio network helpfully broadcast most of the chamber music from Spoleto; and a bank manager in Rome, getting wind of an especially good program of quartets, promptly closed his branch and rushed off to the festival matinee with his entire staff...
...Italian press was outraged. "Why not St. Peter's Basilica!" snapped the Paese Sera. Grumbled Il Giornale d'ltalia: "It's like putting the Eiffel Tower up for auction." Romans conjured up terrible visions of neon signs winking over the colossal marble statues of Neptune and his Tritons...
...news generated a small whirlwind of sanguine speculation-especially in Italy, where it broke on All Saints' Day, when the Vatican's offices and its newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, were closed. Rome's Giornale d'ltalia hailed the meeting as "the Christian summit"; Il Messaggero called it a "sign of Christian reconciliation on the plane of common spiritual defense." The Vatican quickly slapped down such exuberance; L'Osservatore Romano brushed off the news with a small...
...copy of a highly confidential report of the British government, which declared that "no vital British interests exist in Ethiopia which would impose on His Majesty's government the necessity to resist by force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring to the lumber business...