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TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reports that the housing shortage in this city of 1.2 million is so bad (an average 2.8 persons to a room, four to a room in the worst slums) that one newly married couple was forced to live separately, the bride with her parents, the groom with his. The couple found privacy for lovemaking only in their tiny Fiat, parked on a dark street. But even so triumphant a Fiat accompli was rudely interrupted last month by bandits who held up the pair while they were enjoying their cramped privacy...
DIED. John K. Jessup, 72, chief writer of LIFE's editorial page for 22 years; of a heart attack; in Wilton, Conn. In 1935 Jessup was hired by Time Inc. Founder Henry R. Luce as a writer for FORTUNE. Five years later he took charge of TIME's business section, and in 1944 moved on to LIFE, where he presided over the only regular editorial page among Time Inc. publications. In that role, he wrote endorsements of seven presidential candidates and assessments of three wars. After his retirement in 1969, Jessup published The Ideas of Henry Luce...
...frequent run-ins with his zealous protectors were the mixed blessings of reporting for this week's 21-page special report on the Pope's historic visit to the U.S. TIME assigned 20 correspondents and stringers to back up the firsthand accounts of Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who traveled on the Pontiffs plane from Italy to Ireland and around...
...independents are also fragmented. "A trucker is definitely independent," says Roy Woodworth, an operator in Wilton, N. Dak. "He likes to do his own thing, so he is kind of hard to organize. We banded together out of necessity." Across the nation, hard-pressed Governors tried without success last week to find someone who could speak for the owner-drivers in their states. In Minnesota, Governor Al Quie gave up, declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. About 100 representatives of small operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman...
...university professor, leans toward mildly socialist ones. Turkey's real problem, though, is that neither party is strong enough to govern effectively. Still, Ecevit sounded optimistic about his own political future and that of his strategically important country in an interview with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn...