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Clean Hands began in 1991, and got a break a year ago, when Luca Magni, owner of a cleaning company, got tired of paying tangenti, or kickbacks, for the contract to service a public nursing home. He led prosecutors to the facility's administrator, Mario Chiesa, a Socialist Party activist and Craxi associate. The police moved in, Chiesa squealed and the political house of cards began to collapse. Admits Clean Hands chief prosecutor Francesco Saverio Borrelli: "We had no idea when we started how deep this would...
...sharper than a needle, he became the playwright Molière. Perverts & Premiers. All this so impressed Louis XIV, the Sun King, that in 1682 he took over the place and declared "Ourself founder." The faculty, rendering unto Caesar, removed "Jesus" from the front door and put up "Ludovici Magni" (Louis-le-grand). The pleased king founded a foreign-language study annex in Constantinople and a scholarship fund that salvaged more talent, including Encyclopedist Denis Diderot and one Franç Marie Arouet, the talented son of a notary who later called himself Voltaire. "Everyone who carries a name in France...
Perhaps the most impressive about the rally was its magni Radical-conservative leaders, ially William F. Buckley, Jr. National Review, have long top priority to recruiting stu. Yet in the past, rallies for purpose have been less than phant. They usually attracted d 500 people -- mostly grim old ladies. The one last Friday, however, was an unqualified success which reduced even so sentimental a liberal as columnist Murray Kempton (New York Post) to savage comments about "children" who don't respect their (liberal) elders, and to bitter disillusionment about the merits of John Dewey's educational reforms. Four thousand attended...
...Shadow, and an ear-shattering collection of other thrillers kept on blasting through millions of loudspeakers; the announcer's thrilling command-"Ask mother nOw!"-echoed louder than ever. Fancier and more complicated box-top premiums (Planetary Maps, Atomic Bomb Rings, Magni-glow Writing Rings, Detective Badges, Compass-Magnifying Glasses, Explorer's Sun Watches) came flooding through the mails...
...Father Magni had been chosen by the late leader (or "Black Pope") Father Wlodimir Ledochowski, who died last week (TIME, Dec. 21). He will serve as vicar general until after the war, when the 150 Jesuit fathers superior in all parts of the globe can meet to elect a new general. In selecting an old man for the interim Father Ledochowski followed good Jesuit tactics in uncertain times. Had he picked a younger candidate, the vicar general might have had time to entrench himself before the election could be held. By picking a man whose age will disqualify...