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...ambiguous this document will be in its final wording remains to be seen. Italian Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni, one of the council's most outspoken conservatives, has submitted a host of amendments seeking to emphasize the truth of Catholic thinking and the error of other views. U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, who is regarded as the architect of the declaration, has had bishop friends propose amendments strengthening it. And the council has yet to hear from Paul, who has a great sense of compassion for the conservatives and is eager to nourish their support for church renewal...
...power of the U.N. "It has been to me a very inspiring conversation," said the President, who gave the Pope a small vermeil globe as a memento. Paul, who distributed gifts every where he went, gave Johnson a contemporary painting of the resurrected Christ by an Italian painter named Luigi Filocamo...
...extract every ounce of significance from his travels by boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing but shellfish and books on shellfish...
...Henceforth, not only the prosperity of the Italians is in danger but their very freedom," fumed Bestselling Author (and Deputy) Luigi Barzini in the weekly L'Europeo last week. He was denouncing not a new law but an institution that has been tightening its hold on Italian life for centuries: the nation's cumbersome bureaucracy...
...required 200 million lire. The Ministry of Public Works approved the sum. The Court of Accounts said no, and for good measure annulled the 90 million-lire appropriation as well. Cleaning up the bureaucratic mess is the goal of the Department for the Reform of Public Administration, headed by Luigi Preti, known as "Luigi XIV" because the department has had 13 previous heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock...