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...Communists were bitterly disappointed. After Red votes swung the election to moderate Leftist Giovanni Gronchi in 1955, Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti cried: "When it comes to choosing a President, we are the ones who choose." Last week, after the Reds backed Saragat in a futile maneuver aimed at pulling him farther left than Centrist Fanfani would be willing to go, the Communist boast had turned hollow...
...other time, the election of Antonio Segni as Italy's third President could evoke only enthusiasm; a dignified and selfless career has made the Christian Democrat one of Italy's most respected politicians. Many Italians, antagonized by Giovanni Gronchi's partisan use of the theoretically non-political office, look to Segni to restore dignity to the Presidency...
...Chez Ninon (see MODERN LIVING), leopard-coated Jacqueline Kennedy emplaned on a commercial jet for her long-awaited goodwill tour of India and Pakistan. First overnight stop: Rome, where thousands braved forbidding chill and rain to cheer her on rounds that included a formal call on President Giovanni Gronchi and an audience with Pope John XXIII, with whom she would converse in French. - Back to Africa bounded Ireland's choleric, keen-witted Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned...
Immediately after last week's Christian Democratic congress, Fanfani offered his resignation as Premier to President Giovanni Gronchi, who will probably ask him to form a new government this week. Unlike the old, entirely Christian Democratic Cabinet, the new one will include other parties. Among the likely new members: Giuseppe Saragat, leader of the right-wing Socialists, who may be Foreign Minister; Ugo La Malfa, boss of the moderately leftist Republican Party, who may be Finance Minister. Not in the Cabinet but supporting the new government will be Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, whose support Fanfani feels...
...princelings patronized the arts so diligently as the Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. His court painter was Andrea Mantegna. and the walls and ceilings of his grim Gothic castle boasted some of the master's finest work. This week, in that same castle, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi opens an exhibition that should restore...