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Terrorist Reprisals. Outside the court, terrorist commandos disguised as carabinieri stormed two Milan factories and set them on fire, causing damage estimated at $55 million. Three Red Brigades women shot Rome University's dean of the business faculty...
...military coup, but after a tense meeting, the conservative Army Superior Council agreed to accept the government's decision "for patriotism's sake." Exiles were given passports to return home. Carrillo led the way, followed by others, including La Pasionaria from Moscow and Communist Poet Rafael Alberti from Rome. This spring Suárez's government legalized trade unions and restored the right of workers to strike. Finally, it reestablished diplomatic relations, severed since 1939, with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...stood but 5 ft. 4 in., so they called him "the little priest." He was a shy sort, not much of an orator, and enough the awkward immigrant from Bohemia that some of his colleagues lobbied in vain with Rome to keep him from becoming the bishop of cultured Philadelphia. When he died at 48, the carvers misspelled his name on the tombstone...
Following commencement, Wald will leave for Rome and Tokyo to participate in conferences on nuclear armaments and nuclear power. He plans to return to his home in Woods Hole, Mass., to write on scientific topics and maintain his political activities. Even though he never fit the institutional mold and eschewed gray flannels for a turtleneck sweater and medallion, Wald has left an indelible mark upon Harvard. He is at times "a pain in the neck to the administration," as one admirer says, but he is still universally respected in spite or because of his politics...
Died. Roberto Rossellini, 71, Italian film director who introduced neo-realistic films during the post-World War II period; of an apparent heart attack after returning from the Cannes Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...