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...town councillors delivered their negatives to Communist Mayor Guido Gialdi as "evidence." Gialdi suspended Ostilio and Santina, and forwarded prints of the negatives with a report to the provincial prefect. The prefect, an appointee of Italy's Christian Democratic government, ordered Ostilio and Santina reinstated until a formal hearing could be held. Ostilio and Santina filed a suit against the mayor for "defamation and slander...
...weekdays, permission to leave the building during the early evening must be obtained from the corridor prefect. For permission to leave the campus during the evening, the student must go to the dean...
Died. Luigi Cardinal Lavitrano, 76, prefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of Religious,* onetime (1929-45) Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily) ; in Marino, Italy...
...city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated when they tried...
Prelates and the commanders of the Noble, Swiss and Palatine Guards escorted him to the Hall of the Consistory. As soon as he ascended the papal throne, the Prefect of the APostolic Ceremonial asked all outsiders to leave. Then the prefect himself withdrew. In extraordinary consistory, the Pope was alone with 16 cardinals of the church who were seated on wooden benches around the throne. The Pope spoke to them in a quiet, incisive voice...