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...early to rise, always on the job. Trouble was that by ruthless pursuit of his own ambitions, Fanfani had made enemies. Ex-Premier Mario Scelba, whose government Fanfani tumbled by backstage maneuvering in 1955, was not inclined to forgive or forget. Formidable Giuseppe Pella, still probably the most popular Demo-Christian politician in Italy, had two grievances: Fanfani helped overturn Pella's government in 1954, dropped Pella as Foreign Minister last July...
Crocodiles & Tourists. Though an ardent supporter of Catholic Action and the Demo-Christian Party, Cardinal Roncalli won the admiration of many a Venetian leftist for his progressive outlook. He shocked conservatives by proposing that some marble panels be removed from the interior of St. Mark's to give worshipers a better view, but he was dead against a proposal to set up gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens...
...month's rest in the mountains. Behind him he left a party frozen in factionalism and no longer able to capitalize on its greatest electoral appeals-the useful services it performed during the years when its leaders held high office in coalition with the ruling Demo-Christian Party...
...impressive program of local improvements, including nationalization of the nation's only two factories, which both manufacture ceramic souvenirs for the tourist trade. But the new deal never quite came off. One by one the Red faithful left the fold. Three weeks ago San Marino's Demo-Christian minority leader suddenly woke up to the fact that his party now commanded a clear majority of 31 to 29 in the Council. Aware of the same ugly fact, San Marino's two Red "Regents" promptly dissolved the Council and barred the Demo-Christians from the council hall...
Palminteri's decision-all the more convincing because it was reluctant-lifted the shadow of corruption from Italy's Demo-Christian government. Wrote Rome's Messaggero: "Of all the terrible suspicions which tormented public opinion nothing is left: no orgies, no white slavery, no boatloads of prostitutes, nothing." But before the Montesi affair could finally be left to history a new inquiry was in order: How satisfactory was a system of justice which forced Piero Piccioni to suffer three years of public humiliation and judicial jeopardy on the basis of gossip alone...