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In graying Italy, the old defy biases laid bare by pandemic

by Frances D’Emilio
| January 2, 2021 12:12 AM

ROME (AP) — From his newsstand at the bottom of two hilly streets in Rome, Armando Alviti has been dispensing newspapers, magazines and good cheer to locals from before dawn till after dusk nearly every day for more than a half-century.

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