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In graying Italy, the old defy biases laid bare by pandemic
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ROME 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. Ciao, Armando, his customers greet him as part of their daily routine. Ciao, amore (love) he calls back. Alviti chuckled as he recalled how, when he was a young boy, newspaper deliverers would drop off the day s stacks at his parents newsstand, sit him in the emptied baskets of their motorbikes and take him for a spin. Since he turned 18, Alviti has operated the newsstand seven days a week, with a wool tweed cap to protect him from the Italian capital s winter dampness and a tabletop fan to cool him during its torrid summers. A mighty battle therefore ensued when the coronavirus reached Italy and his two grown sons insisted that Alviti, who is 71 and diabetic, stay home while they took turns juggling their own jobs to keep the newsstand ope