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Piero Piccioni, the son of Premier Mario Scelba's ex-Foreign Minister, was locked up in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail on charges of manslaughter. Ugo Montagna, the rich and influential bogus marquis, was clapped into a nearby cell. Rome's ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito was also arrested but allowed to stay at home, pending trial, because...
...news of the arrests, Piccioni's father, who only a week before had resigned as Foreign Minister in order to stand by his son's side, promptly suffered a nervous collapse. Piero, however, submitted quietly enough. At the big grey prison where he was locked in a cell just vacated by a Sicilian accused of murder, he refused to send out for special meals, ate instead the plain prison fare of boiled beef and bread. "This is as good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said. And from a pretty quarter...
...want to leave here like a gentleman.'' One of Montagna's first visitors was a handsome blonde driving a sleek Alfa Romeo, who was promptly turned away by the prison guards when she tried to leave him a bouquet of red carnations to decorate his cell...
...lying side by side on the bed, "as if there were two of me." Some of the victims have stuck it out for six days, with only short respites for food. Some, in spite of the $20 wage, have quit after one day. As soon as they leave the cell, the hallucinations stop; the squirrels and little yellow men march away forever. But not for hours do the victims get back to normal. They have headaches, cannot study, lose their skill at handwriting. Sometimes such effects continue for 24 hours...
...middle-aged bachelor with a broad outlook, he makes a play for Gina, soon oversteps himself and falls in the river. That same afternoon, when Gina gets in a street fight. Chief De Sica takes his chance to clap her in the clink. But when he goes to her cell in the dead of night, Gina touchingly tells him that she is worried about her donkey. The police chief goes ruefully off to give the brute some hay. Gina of course gets the man she wants in the end, and the chief makes do with a lusty midwife (Marisa Merlini...