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Rumors that the Vatican had been burgled began to circulate last May, when one of the Holy See's security officers discovered by chance a one-of-a-kind gold religious medallion in the window of a Roman coin shop. It had been missing from the Pope's apartment since 1969. The original seller was traced to his job at the telephone exchange, where he protested, none too convincingly, that he was just an innocent hobbyist who had bought the medal for a song from coworkers. Within the month, three other telephone men had been arrested, and details...
...happy to find themselves subject to the Vatican's often draconian justice. It was said of the Papal States' public executioner, Mastro Titta, that he could crush bones with his bare hands. Today, however, the defendants are probably lucky that they were not turned over to Roman civil authorities. They were released on bail, which is rarely allowed by Italian courts. Also, they are getting a speedy trial, which is even more unusual in the litigation-swamped Italian system. On top of that, the Vatican's prosecutor, Leopoldo Jacobelli, last week rose in court...
...basic idea of eat, drink and be amused, all at the same time, can be traced-if anyone insists-to metropolitan sophisticates of the Roman Empire. In the U.S. today, dinner theater is largely a suburban phenomenon. It began to catch on in the late '50s in the South and Midwest, but the real boom began in the late '60s with the decline of the inner cities and the rising fear of crime. In the Washington, D.C., area, notes Actor Walt Lachman, a dozen suburban restaurant-theaters sprang up after the riots of 1968. "The white middle-class...
...James McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...
...became a Republican, ran for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island (John Pastore retained the seat), and then in 1971 went to work as a speechwriter on the White House staff at a salary of about $30,000. To distinguish between his sacerdotal and political roles, he abandoned the Roman collar ("a one-inch piece of plastic") except for church events. Last week McLaughlin's superior, the Very Rev. Richard Cleary, Jesuit provincial of New England, issued a statement dissociating the Society of Jesus from McLaughlin's views and summoned him to report to Boston for prayer...