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...Painted on the refectory wall at Milan's Santa Maria della Grazie, Leonardo's masterpiece started going to pot even before his death, has faded and flaked so badly that only the barest details remain...
Died. Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, 85, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, hereditary "Marshal of the Conclave" at which Popes are elected, dabbler in science (he was an expert on marine worms); of angina pectoris; in Rome...
...expanded staff of diplomatically trained clergy will be the task of an institution of learning that is 250 years old this year-the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Though it has turned out four popes, 98 cardinals and 42 papal nuncios since it opened in 1701, the academy on the Piazza della Minerva has had a checkered career. Three times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded and who shows other outward...
...Must Do Something." Pisciotta had a falling out with his chief. Some of their followers were being held for trial for the murder of May Day marchers at Portella della Ginestra (TIME, May 12, 1947). Pisciotta proposed a raid to save them. "We must do something for our friends," he urged. But Giuliano was hesitant. "There is little we can do," he said. "If, we allow our organization to be destroyed, our friends will have no hope." Giuliano made a gesture. He wrote a letter to the trial judge in which he took personal blame for the murders. Pisciotta...
...friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming a desire for peace . . . The President of the United States refused a policy that...