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Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
...When art experts X-rayed da Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, they found...
...work of da Vinci...
...Melancholy anniversary!" commented the conservative newspaper 0 Estado de São Paulo. "After two years Senhor Getulio Vargas still struggles in a vacuum of perplexing inactivity." Said Rio's Correio da Manhã, "The hour is ripe for sinister demagogues...
...Lenora Lafayette of Baton Rouge, La., the role of the dusky Aļda was the chance of a lifetime. The daughter of a bricklayer who worked his way up to manager of a contracting company, Lenora made up her mind at 17 to be a singer. With her father backing her to the limit, she went to Tennessee's Fisk University, then to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Three years ago she won a traveling scholarship to Europe. She had mastered the leads in Butterfly and Aļda...