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Duty Galls. In La Spezia, Italy, after a car driven by Police Chief Luigi Scotti collided with a motorcycle at an intersection, Scotti wrote up a report of the incident, charged himself with failing to grant the right of way, collected a $1.60 fine from himself on the spot...
...Luigi G. Jacchia, research associate at the observatory, described the relative freedom with which unskilled workers in the Soviet Union can move to different jobs and different cities. He added, however, that housing and job shortages do make such movement difficult, and that some government supervision is exercised...
...Soprano Farrell and the San Francisco Opera, last week's opening-night performance of Luigi Cherubini's Medea was both trial and triumph. The title role is one of the most exhausting in all opera: Medea is on stage for 80 of the opera's 105 minutes, and during most of that time she is singing strenuously. But Medea also has its great moments, and it provides an ideal vocal showcase for a dramatic soprano. In the last five years, Maria Callas has virtually made the role over in her own fiery image (she will sing...
...Roaring into a curve in Rheims's Grand Prix de France, Italy's Luigi Musso was a mere 100 yds. behind Britain's Mike Hawthorn. Musso gunned his Ferrari, hit the curve at 140 m.p.h., catapulted off the triangular course into a wheatfield, died. He was the last of Italy's great three. Alberto Ascari was killed in 1955; Eugenio Castellotti, Musso's closest friend and rival...
...city they could not walk through for fear of meeting creditors. Puccini scored a critical success with his first opera, a one-acter entitled Le Villi, but he did not win a large following until at 34 he collaborated with his two most successful librettists, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, to produce Manon Lescaut. After that his popular success was secure...