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Last week Corriere beat the Italian press with a Page One report by New York Correspondent Ugo Stille that NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad had chosen Italy as a site for medium-range missile bases. Through the eyes of its own 25 foreign correspondents, the mirror in Milan also reflected such stories as tension in North Africa and the Middle East, and, from Germany, Iranian Queen Soraya's reluctant progress toward a divorce (see FOREIGN NEWS). The paper bolsters its overseas coverage with 650 string correspondents and a platoon of 16 world-roving reporters known as "special envoys...
This sex-driven movie, transliteration of a play by Italy's late, earnest Ugo Betti, would be far better if it gave its characters time to indulge in a few other natural functions, eating and sleeping, for instance. The English subtitles are as unnecessary to the story as its French dialogue. All is really said in sign language, and it cannot be mistaken...
...accusation that Foreign Minister Piccioni's son Piero, a 35-year-old jazz pianist, had abandoned Wilma Montesi to the waves while she was stupefied by drugs. The fact that the police had at first declared her death accidental was attributed to pressure brought to bear by Ugo Montagna, a bogus Sicilian marquis of inexplicable wealth and impressive contacts among the upper reaches of the Christian Democratic Party...
Three days later an impressive array of government art experts descended on Borgo San Sepolcro. After spending a full day in careful inspection, Professor Ugo Procacci, director of Florence's Department of Restorations, announced: "The decision to attribute the painting to Piero della Francesca is unanimous. Even if the painting is not mentioned in original sources, it emerges beyond challenge, from other documents, that Piero della Francesca did work in this church on some panels...
Like the dashing boulevardier he pretended to be, Ugo Montagna went to prison in style, reporting at the jail gate without benefit of police escort, but with a posse of lawyers at his side, after learning on a round of the nightclubs that a warrant had been issued for him. His first request was for a suit of prison clothes. "This gabardine I am wearing is newly cleaned and pressed," he explained, "and I don't want to get it dirty. I want to leave here like a gentleman.'' One of Montagna's first visitors...