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Romans were happily telling each other this incident as a sign that Pope Pius XII was better. The outlook was still chancy for a badly weakened man of 78, but by week's end the improvement was dramatic. No one was sure yet what had been wrong with him...
Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and...
Paestum Exhumed. The bookish approach scored a triumph at Paestum, 60 miles south of Naples, where Greek empire-builders established a colony in the early 6th century B.C. The city's long history and its conquest by Lucanians and Romans were well known from classical literature, and its walls...
Cynical Romans could scarcely believe their eyes or their ears. Rome's traffic came to a full stop as the city's motorists abandoned their cars in midstreet to buy each edition of each new paper. Screaming headlines proclaimed the facts: after months of inaction and seeming indifference...
Was Saint Jerome, The great name-caller Who cared not a dime For the laws of libel And in his spare time Translated the Bible. Quick to disparage All arts but learning, Jerome liked marriage Better than burning But didn't like woman's Painted cheeks; Didn'...