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Posthumous Appeal. Italian newspapers were suggesting that the strategy of Viterbo might be the only way out. Some Deputies showed their disgust by casting ballots for Movie Star Sophia Loren and an 88-year-old actress named Emma Gramatica. One man dropped his laundry list in the ballot box, another a letter from his wife, a third a job request from a constituent. One Deputy made a posthumous appeal to the late great Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi by writing on his ballot: "De Gasperi, save Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Worst Way | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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