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...Rome Caravelle jet flew into a vicious downdraft over the Apuane Alps, plummeted sickeningly before the pilot regained control. A stewardess was knocked unconscious and six passengers who had failed to fasten their seat belts were battered against the bulkhead. Among the most seriously injured: Italian Movie Producer Carlo Ponti, 48, husband-in-fact (if not by law) of Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 28, whose badly cut right ear required 14 emergency stitches and 45 extra ones in plastic surgery. "Frightening," said Ponti, his head turbaned in bandages. "Luckily, Sophia wasn't on board...
...strings about her face and neck. He was rumpled. Both were tired from filming Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona in the town of Tirrenia. In one of those private moments that public figures rarely show the world, Sophia Loren wrapped her brawny arms around Carlo Ponti, her short, balding spouse, in a tender Neapolitan embrace. The photographers were not far away...
...Sophia was snubbed by some of Italy's foremost politicians, and the affair had to be canceled. Left-Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, unhappy that Sophia's sister married a Mussolini, sent his regrets; Entertainment Minister Alberto Folchi, aware that Sophia is living in sin with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their 1957 marriage early this year), developed a diplomatic cold. Finally, 1961's best actress had to accept her Oscar at a small reception in her own apartment. "I didn't expect a state reception," said...
...phone rang in Rome at 6:40 a.m. Sophia's husband. Carlo Ponti, picked it up, then shouted: "Sophia win? Sophia win? True? True...
Doors opened. The big apartment began filling like a leaky boat. Sophia pirouetted around wildly in a white nightie and green peignoir, kissing Ponti, kissing her mother, her sister, her director Vittorio De Sica,* even one or two paparazzi. Back in Hollywood, M.C. Bob Hope curled a lip slightly and said: "It must be wonderful to have talent enough to just send...