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...this shifting warfare, responsibility for security is often difficult to define. The three Japanese last week were checked through a magnetometer at Rome's airport while their uninspected bags were being stowed. Rome Airport Police Chief Pietro Guli insists that baggage is the responsibility of individual airlines. Meanwhile International Air Transport Association Director Knut Hammarskjold calls airport security everywhere "inadequate...
...tangle of bureaucratic procedure. A $400 million emergency fund for the restoration of Venice, raised abroad by Minister of Public Works Mario Ferrari Aggradi, lies unused while dozens of local and national agencies squabble over their slices of it. Another example: the frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Holy See, the basilica and convent of Assisi were to be given back to the Vatican. But the Holy See refused to accept them unless the buildings and their irreplaceable frescoes were wholly...
Among the best-known candidates will be Film Actor Gian Maria Volonte, star of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and Concetto Lo Bello. Italy's most famous soccer referee. For militant leftists, there is Anarchist Pietro Valpreda, 39, a professional dancer by trade, who is charged with having killed 16 people and wounded 90 by planting a bomb two years ago in Milan's Agricultural Bank. Militant rightists can turn to Pino Rauti, 46, a neo-Fascist newsman who is accused of exploding 24 bombs at various places in 1969, including eight aboard trains on the Milan...
...first ballot as candidate, and the 22nd of the election, Leone polled 503 votes, just one short of a majority. The candidate of the Marxists, Old Socialist Pietro Nenni, ran a poor second, with 408 votes. Next day, Leone finally made it with 518 votes-and without the support of the Communists, who had desperately wanted to be kingmakers. After a deadlock that left some Italians wondering whether their country was really ready for democracy, Italy at last had a President...
...covers also represent nearly every conceivable art form-painting in oil and watercolor, drawing, photography, sculpture, woodcut, collage, even needlepoint. The prominent contributors over the decades include Painters Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Boris Chaliapin, Dong Kingman, Henry Koerner, Peter Max, Andy Warhol, Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth; Cartoonists Herblock, Bill Mauldin, Patrick Oliphant, Charles Schulz and James Thurber; Sculptors Robert Berks and Marisol. Among the hosts of the Los Angeles exhibit will be Glessmann and Associate Publisher Ralph Davidson...