ITALY: For Shame!

"Young lady," asks the stern policeman, "don't you know you can't wear a two-piece bathing suit on the beach?" "Why no," answers the girl; "which piece shall I take off?"

Some Romans laughed at this old joke last week. But buxom, 19-year-old Annamarie Proietti was too angry to smile. Annamarie is a waitress from Rome's Communist-filled slums who last week slipped off to swarming, breezy Ostia for an afternoon on the beach with her boy friend Mario. "We were lying there in the sun talking," she told a reporter later, "when somebody tapped...

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