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...Premier Emilio Colombo resigned from office, and Italy since then has been without effective government. President Giovanni Leone asked Colombo to try to form a new one. When he finally admitted failure, Leone turned to yet another Christian Democrat, Giulio Andreotti, the party's floor leader in the Chamber of Deputies...
...with alternatives. The Christian Democrats still wanted another coalition. Even if Andreotti succeeded in forming one, no one gave such a government much chance to last. If he does not succeed, the most plausible alternative is that the Christian Democrats, who do not have a clear majority in the Chamber, might try to carry on as a one-party monocolore government which could be brought down at any time. That would simply be the next step toward dissolving Parliament and sending Italians to the polling booths...
...busy, bristling "Speed-Skating Capital of America." Until recently there may have been some doubters of that heady claim. Not now. Not after two of the town's favorite daughters, Anne Henning and Dianne Holum, skated off with gold medals in the 1972 Winter Games. Indeed, the local Chamber of Commerce has already begun to engrave its stationery with a new slogan: "Speed-Skating Capital of the World...
...assed coed she's been taken for. There are no simple heroes in the film: all are caught in cultural conflicts and personal traumas which Peckinpah doesn't sort out sufficiently. Peckinpah's belief in territorial imperatives works better on a mythic scale than on that of chamber drama. Still, he's the most talented director on this list. If he's just keeping his hand on a camera, playing for the budget to make another Wild Bunch, that is almost all a gifted man can do to stay solvent in Hollywood...
Glasses Askew. Maudling tried to continue, but Bernadette was up again, yelling, "Nobody shot at the paratroopers, but somebody will shortly." She also called Maudling "that murdering hypocrite." Suddenly, as the Speaker of the House struggled to maintain order, Bernadette stalked to the center of the chamber and threw herself bodily on the Home Secretary. Arms and legs flailing, she punched, scratched and spit at Maudling, knocking his glasses askew and tearing at his hair. For a few seconds, the stunned House sat and watched. Then Tory M.P.s pulled Bernadette away from the embattled Home Secretary. As she was escorted...