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...doughty little woman with tinted grey-blue hair has finally destroyed a venerable Italian institution: the state-supervised brothel. Angelina Merlin, 68, is Italy's only woman Senator. For ten years she has been nagging Italy's legislators to do the right thing. Last week the Chamber of Deputies ran out of delaying tactics, and by a vote of 385 to 115 ordered that all houses of prostitution (which have been paying a 3% tax on income to the state) be closed within six months, and that their 4,000 girls serving 30,000 clients daily...
Monarchist Deputy Angelo Rubino warned that closing the brothels means "free prostitution, which means nothing less than free contagion." Cried one legislator: "We Italians are an exuberant people with deep sexual needs." (Snorted Senator Merlin scornfully: "Men are men.") But many Italians, aware that their nation is the last one in Europe where prostitution is legal, are glad to see it finished. Said one: "What has been going on here is that houses have been selling the bodies of women, and the government has been taking a percentage of the sale." One young Roman was more cynical. "Now that...
...biggest star was Rolls-Royce, whose plane engines bear the same mark of quality as its princely autos. The most successful private enginemaker in Europe, Rolls developed the famed Merlin piston engine for the R.A.F.'s scrappy Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, got out ahead in jets when it took over development of Sir Frank Whittle's first workable jet. The company was one of the first in turboprops with its Dart engine (1,780 h.p.), which is a main reason for Vickers' spectacular success (total sales: 353 planes) with its Viscount airliner (TIME...
...John L. Butler, chief of Idaho's Department of Mental Health, had publicly opposed sentencing the homosexual adults to prison terms: "We have to build up community supports for them," he said. "One alternative might be to let them form their own society and be left alone." Judge Merlin S. Young disagreed. In sentencing one of the men, the judge said: "As an adult, you have an obligation to the youth of the community...
...lost its do, and in the emergency, he had invoked, by making a few passes with needle and thread, the familiar spirit of that infinitely greater magician who has cast his spell upon the entire world-Walt Disney. Indeed, not since the Age of Fable, not since Mage Merlin and Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing the most cheerful plague of little animals that has ever been visited on humankind...