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Honk, Plonk. In Casteldaccia, Sicily, police had to rescue Bus Driver Paolo Alliotta, 33, from a mob of townsmen, who stoned him because he blew his horn to clear traffic, awoke them from their sidewalk naps...
...this time, matching them meeting for meeting, was 44-year-old Christian Democrat Deputy Paolo Bonomi and his national federation of dirt farmers. Italy's farmers, like most farmers everywhere, are conservative. But not even the Communists were prepared for the landslide that buried their candidates. With the count nearly complete, the Reds had won only 142 out of 7,649 communes. Even in the Red strongholds of Tuscany and Emilia, the Communists took only 18 out of 603 posts. The anti-Communists got a surprising 98% of the vote...
Last week Romano Barberis of Milan and Paolo Scanzoni of Rome, who worked out Filtravox, were happily sure that they had filled a long-felt need. Since Osserva-tore's announcement on Nov. 10, they have been getting phone calls, letters and orders for the panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when...
Amber & Gold. When the water of the Valle Pega had been drained away, the official archaeologists attacked the newfound diggings. It was a sloppy job, but by using pumps and sheet-metal cofferdams, they reached the deep tombs that the Comacchiesi had missed. Guided by Professor Paolo Enrico Arias of the Uni versity of Catania (who wears a beret and looks, except for his red rubber boots, like a movie director of the Keystone Cop period), the laborers extracted a stream of beautiful things dating from the time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young...
Mussolini, by Paolo Monelli. A sharp likeness that makes the would-be Caesar look like a buffoon (TIME...