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Prosperity is not so old in industrial It aly that men have forgotten the chron ic unemployment that once forced southerners to trek into northern Eu rope for jobs...
...squatters spent days demon strating for housing. Last week, after a delegation was rebuffed at city hall, they milled about the building, brandishing boards and iron bars, until carabinieri in riot gear drove them off. In the 19th century square where they jostled, the hero ic bronze statue of the "Green Count" of Savoy (a 14th century nobleman named Amadeo VI, whose sobriquet derives from his inevitable green jousting costume) had been draped with a new red flag. Beneath the statue of the count, a blonde girl frugged incongruously on the pedestal as the fighting rolled...
...cigar-chomping, bald, self-made millionaire named Jack Eckerd, 61, who created a chain of 422 drugstores in the South. Eckerd came across as a solid businessman who might bring some horse sense to the fight against inflation. (Eckerd's opponent will be picked by a Democrat ic runoff next month...
...doomsday ("Forty days," warns the group's leader "Moses David" Berg, and "Nineveh shall be destroyed!"). A different alarm is sounded by the Italian parapsychologist Astaroth, 52 (real name: Claudio Giannantonio), who counsels members of the Rome political and movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn to commit acts of violence-not only singly but collectively." In McFarland, Wis., the self-proclaimed head of the Church of the Odd Infinitum, Edward Ben Elson, is selling tickets at $10 each for his intergalactic spaceship...
...Worse yet, Lambton combined pot with his popsies. Marijuana or cannabis-for those readers of the report who might never have heard of it-was described as "a soft drug which produces changes in mood and perception and gives a feeling of irresponsibility." Diplock added that there was "photograph ic evidence," involving Lambton, "of sexual practices which deviated from the normal...