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...Milan's 600-year-old cathedral is in danger of collapse, and visitors are banned from the apse and roof. The four main pillars supporting the dome -each weighing 3,800 tons-have sunk almost an inch in the past three years, breaking two of the four tie beams between them. The mayor of Milan admitted that "the situation is not dramatic, though it is worrying." He has banned motor traffic from the huge and busy square in front of the cathedral, in effect closing the crossroads of the central city. The result has been the worst traffic snarls...
Scientists at the Common Market's Euratom research center in Ispra, near Milan, are working on a process that they say can cut the cost of hydrogen in half. This process subjects ordinary water to the 800° C. heat of a nuclear reactor. At such temperatures, the hydrogen and oxygen in the water begin to separate; each can then be combined with other chemicals and eventually extracted from them. Dr. Cesare Marchetti, head of Euratom's materials division, predicts: "By improving the technology through experience, we can push the costs of hydrogen fuel down by perhaps...
Supporters of Alexander Dubcek's ill-fated 1968 attempt to give "socialism a human face" in Czechoslovakia are being punished in such numbers that even Western Communists have begun to protest. Last week in the seventh known trial since July 17, former Czech Communist Party College Rector Milan Hübl, 45, and two other men were accused of distributing "provocative printed matter" in order to weaken "the socialist system in the state." That is, they had passed out pamphlets during Czechoslovakia's elections last fall, informing voters of their constitutional right to cross out names...
...court sessions, from which foreign press and public were barred, the judges imposed sentences of up to six years on former Party Theoretician Jaromir Litera, Sociologist Rudolf Battek, Historian Jan Tesař and others. Five defendants were given suspended sentences. More important leaders of the Prague spring, including Milan Hübl, former chief of the Party Training College, and Liberal Journalist Jiři Hochman, are still in prison and awaiting trial...
...help advertisers get full benefit from TIME'S flexibility, our representatives from Melbourne to Montreal to Milan must be as knowledgeable about international marketing, economics and politics as they are about the magazine. So in this week's meetings they exchanged information and ideas not only with TIME'S correspondents, editors and senior executives, but also with a roster of industrial and financial experts and Government officials. One day was spent in Washington, where the group lunched with Treasury Deputy Secretary Charls E. Walker. All of which, I am sure, will help our representatives serve our clients...