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...after he fell ill with what was first announced as a urinary infection, Pope Paul VI, 70, underwent surgery for removal of an enlarged prostate gland. The 45-minute operation, performed by a team of six doctors headed by Italy's renowned surgeon, Professor Pietro Valdoni, 67, took place in an up-to-date operating theater installed last month in the Vatican. The first major surgery ever performed on a Pope "went excellently," said the Vatican, and the Pope should be up and about in two weeks...
Mazzoni, who quickly gave his patient still another transfusion and called in for consultation Roman Surgeon Pietro Valdoni and the Pope's old friend and personal physician, Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini of Bologna. When on Tuesday of last week the bleeding increased, the quaintly formal Vatican press releases, full of references to "the august patient," for the first time admitted the gravity of the situation...
...Marshal Pietro Badoglio: his guess, $5,600; collector's guess, $17,600. ¶Rome's leading Surgeon Pietro Valdoni: his guess, $24,000; collector's guess...
...taken to the Policlinico, Rome's largest hospital and the only one not affected by a slowdown strike of doctors, nurses and attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly...
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