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...portent of an increasingly widespread interest in the legitimate theater. Initially, the Hartman plans to put on a seven-play season, and the offerings this year will include The Threepenny Opera, Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson, and the world premiere of a play called The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt...
...bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World War II he supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers, among them Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill and Dorothy Parker. A childless widower, Montale now lives in Milan, where he contributes literary and music criticism for the daily Corriere della Sera. The prize of $143,000 is unlikely to alter his life or writings. With typical candor, Montale declared last week that the prize has simply made his existence, "which has always been unhappy, a little less unhappy...
...demonstrations that first flared up across Europe continued into last week, often turning violent. Mobs besieged embassies and consulates in about a dozen cities. Flames gutted Spain's mission in Lisbon; a bomb exploded in the garden of the embassy in Ankara. In Rome and Milan, angry mobs set fire to Spanish tourist buses, and assaulted shops with Molotov cocktails. Danes smashed the windows of Spain's embassy and trade mission in Copenhagen. Paris was engulfed by the worst outburst of violence since the 1968 stu dent demonstrations as peaceful marches by leftists disintegrated into full-fledged rioting...
...purchase of terrorist weapons. In Europe, political abductions have multiplied over the past few years in Germany, and kidnapings for money have been concentrated among the wealthier classes in Italy. There have already been 39 Italian cases this year, compared with 41 during all of 1974, and Milan Police Chief Mario Massagrande gloomily says, "I am afraid kidnaping is the crime of the future...
...Diego Novelli last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Because he amassed a higher vote total than Turin's 79 other councilmen in recent municipal elections, Novelli won the privilege of supervising the selection of a new mayor from among them for Italy's second largest (after Milan) industrial city. The outcome was preordained. When all 80 votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita, announced: "In keeping with the requirement for an absolute majority, I hereby proclaim the elected mayor of the city of Turin...