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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome's 432 churches, prayers were offered "to spare Italy the calamity of divorce." Before an audience of 250 Italian newlyweds, Pope Paul VI declared that legislators should "venerate, honor and defend" the indissolubility of marriage. Premier Mariano Rumor urged his colleagues to make "one last careful meditation." All to no avail. Amid prayer vigils, the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by a 325-to-283 vote, a bill that will permit divorce for the first time in modern Italian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Closer to Divorce | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Critics have long-and unfairly-blamed the Vatican for almost every controversial move made by companies in which it has substantial holdings. For example, when Immobiliare teamed up with Conrad Hilton to build the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel on a Rome hilltop, the leftist press angrily accused the Holy See of wire pulling to arrange the zoning. When the government carved Via Olimpica across Rome to speed traffic to the 1960 Olympic Games, anticlerical pundits charged that the thoroughfare was laid out to provide huge profits for Immobiliare, which owned big tracts of property along the route. Early this year, small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Low Profile for the Vatican | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...however, have one-man shows in 1958 at the Fogg, 1964 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and 1967 at the DeCordova, as well as shows in New York, Rome and elsewhere...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Mirko Basaldella, Director Of Design Workshop, Dies | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

...Ford Foundation gave him a grant this year to return to Rome (where he spent every summer) so he could sculpt rather than teach next semester. Mirko was anxious to go. "I am not so young," he explained; there was work to get done and sculptures yet to make...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Mirko Basaldella, Director Of Design Workshop, Dies | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

Mirko is survived by his wife, Serena; his two brothers Afro and Dino, both Italian sculptors; and his mother, who lives in Udine, Italy, Mirko's birthplace. There will be a giant retrospective exhibit of Mirko's work in Rome this spring...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Mirko Basaldella, Director Of Design Workshop, Dies | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

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