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Last week the Catholic bishops of the Italian dioceses of Rimini and Montefalco, who supervise the spiritual welfare of the world's oldest and smallest republic (38 sq. mi.; pop. 12,000), in a pastoral letter called on St. Marinus to combat Beelzebub's latest manifestation-a Communist-sponsored gambling casino...
...Foreign Minister, Juan Atilio Bramuglia was one of the ablest men in President Juan Perón's cabinet. Though a moderate, he was also one of Perón's oldest and staunchest supporters. But he had one disadvantage: he had somehow, somewhere, offended the President's wife, Evita. Last week, it indirectly cost...
...about $35) for his exceptional fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...
Freemasonry is by far the biggest, oldest and most important of the numerous orders, and the model for most of them. It has been suspiciously peered at and often "exposed." Actually, although Masonry's ritual is private, it contains no dreadful secrets. Its symbolism is commonplace (e.g., the trowel cements men in brotherly love; the white lambskin apron is for innocence). Its ceremonies are based on biblical stories. The legend of the slaying of Hiram Abif, one of the builders of Solomon's Temple, is the background of much of the ritual. The world of Hiram Abif...
...Rome's Ciampino airport last month the police arrested a "businessman" from New York named Charles Vincent Trupia, who had on him 20 Ibs. of cocaine, worth a half million dollars at peddlers' prices. The police, reflecting that the drug traffic was one of Lucky's oldest loves, hauled him out of his penthouse. Day after day, they questioned him. They wanted to know about another jail suspect who claimed to have been a Luciano lieutenant. Said Lucky: "The way they talk about my 'lieutenants,' I got more than the army." He was allowed...