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...port of Fano in 1963. A wily antique dealer and his two cousins from the nearby town of Gubbio bought it for $5,500, then kept it in a local priest's house, as they tried to peddle it secretly to European art dealers for $200,000. A Roman antique dealer tipped Italian officials off to the statue's existence. But when police raided the priest's house in 1964, the bronze was gone. In a lengthy court fight, the priest and the three cousins were acquitted of illegally receiving archaeological property belonging to the state. Italy...
...Greek youth's peregrinations between 1964 and 1972, when Getty Museum Curator Jiri Frel viewed him in Munich, are uncertain. By then, ownership was claimed by Artemis, a Luxembourg-based art consortium. Getty, the late oil billionaire, had begun a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities at his U.S. home in Malibu, Calif., and expressed interest in the statue. But even he balked at the asking price-about $5 million. After his death in 1976, officials at his museum continued the quest for the statue, finally arriving at a deal this year...
...ignored it at first, hoping that it would fade with lack of attention. In the most dramatic anti-front action so far, Britain's 150-member Council of Churches has issued a joint declaration warning that "our traditional ideas of tolerance and respect are being eroded." The Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference has put forth a similar statement. Church officials are now urging ministers to attack the front from the pulpit and to ask parishioners to sign an "affirmation" that "the racial policies and activities of the National Front, and other similar bodies, are contrary to the truth...
...Gierek, whose country is predominantly Roman Catholic, last week requested and was granted an audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican...
Lewis, an Anglican, has always had a following among Roman Catholics. But the major Lewis shrine exists at a collection on British Christian writers (including Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers) at Wheaton College in Illinois, a staunchly Evangelical Protestant school. In Curator Clyde S. Kilby's vault are many unpublished Lewis treasures: boyhood writings, diaries and 1,000 of his letters, including lifelong correspondence with Arthur Greeves, a friend from his Belfast youth...