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...Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent Osservatore Romano editorialized: "The attempt to ennoble the beauty contest, to demonstrate that these feminine fairs are different from horse shows by virtue of God's gift of intelligence, was shipwrecked on the beach at Rimini...
...Roman court took pity on two children of Benito Mussolini, ruled that their health is too delicate for them to earn a living and awarded them pensions for life. Tubercular Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 28 (TIME, Jan. 30), will get $112 a month; his sister Anna Maria, 27, partially crippled from a polio attack in childhood. $192 a month. The pair will not burden Italy's grandly evasive taxpayers; the support funds will come from their father's confiscated estate...
Next day the Vatican's paper, Osservatore Romano, slapped back. "A Roman tribunal has made statements of extreme gravity . . ." it editorialized. "Its statements separate the lay order from religious morals. In a religious nation such as Italy, where the state declared the Catholic religion to be its own religion, the public magistrate cannot but bow to the dictates of that religion...
...bestsellers went on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books: The Second Sex (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) and The Mandarins (TIME, May 28), both by French Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. Her works, said Osservatore Romano, " spread a deleterious atmosphere of existentialist philosophy ... a subtle poison . . . Madame de Beauvoir defends emancipation of women from moral laws...
...CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage to Christ should be rendered 'with their feet' by people who reject Him with their minds...