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...Pope John XXIII rode in a long black Cadillac, and with him rode two of his cardinals-Clemente Cardinal Micara, Vicar General of Rome, and France's bearded Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College. Commented Rome's Cornere Delia Sera: "This is a highly significant particular . . . because John wishes thereby to make a public demonstration of the fact that he means to give the utmost prestige to the College of Cardinals, restoring to it its full powers...
...instead of 13 cardinals, and the overall Italian representation in the College of Cardinals is now up from 17 to 29-not, Vaticaners feel, with a view to restoring the traditional Italian majority, but to revive Italian pride in the "senate of the church." Noted Corriere Delia Sera: "Even though the number of non-Italians is still preponderant, at least we are no longer the miserable one-third that we were reduced to during the previous pontificate...
...strategy: not to avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa [The pass is the enemy of man]," and sometimes they would hurl an insult: "Let the Prime Minister give his own wife a pass if he wants them...
...Milan, where the show attracted 5,000 during the summer art season doldrums, the recognized critics took quite a different view. Wrote Carriere della Sera's Leonardo Borgese: "It is not new. It is not painting. It is not America . . . Droppings of paint, sprayings, burstings, lumps, squirts, whirls, rubs and marks, erasures, scrawls, doodles and kaleidoscope backgrounds. When will they send us a real American show?" The owner of one of Milan's art galleries took one look, snorted, "Droolings!" and departed...
Then she decided. Under her headdress she let her shaved hair grow a bit; from material sent in by friends she secretly stitched herself a skirt and blouse. One night she changed her clothes and mingled with visitors who were leaving the convent. "Buona sera," she nodded to the gatekeeper, and stepped out into the lighted street...