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...Springs, Ark. This existence was interrupted in 1954 when the Government charged him with evading a paltry $12,000 in federal income taxes. Before the matter was settled two Government witnesses, an elderly couple, disappeared from their bloodstained Miami house. Al got off with a year in Milan, Mich...
Crowding into Milan's seedy, smoke-filled Halcyon Theater, 547 Social Democratic bigwigs shouted and orated in impressive abstract discussions of Marxist theory, but were unable even to agree on a platform for Italy's general elections, now only six months off. After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after...
...Milan's weekly Epoca, Jesuit Theologian Armando Guidetti explored related subjects. On reverse gluttony: "The person who to keep a slim figure damages her health by eating too little is guilty of mortal sin." On competitive gluttony: "It is a sin to take part in a competition where the winner is the one who eats or drinks most." On drinking: "'Perfect drunkenness' is definitely listed among mortal sins. 'Imperfect drunkenness,' which leads only to a befuddling of the mind, is generally only a venial...
...have a preference for form." That preference arises from many years of handling and cutting solid shapes. Nivola was born 46 years ago in a Sardinian village, and early apprenticed as a mason. He graduated from masonry to ornamental stucco work, and eventually won a scholarship to Milan's Art Institute. But he says he learned more as a skilled workman than as an art student...
Scheduled to sing with the San Francisco Opera Company in Lucia and Macbeth, with thousands of tickets sold weeks in advance, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Callas was reached in Milan, after days of trying via transatlantic telephone, announced on the eve of the opera season that she wanted to cut the number of performances, and postpone their dates. The temperamental diva was promptly fired...