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...lavish program of public works, had worked night and day to compile his volatile guest list. When the conference began in Florence's 600-year-old Palazzo Vecchio. just about everyone invited was there, including eleven ambassadors. Even Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani and President Giovanni Gronchi agreed to show up to dramatize Italy's self-appointed role in the Mediterranean as a bridge between the Arabs and the West. In the opening address, the chairman of the conference, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco, spoke "from my heart" of his hope that the delegates would deliberate...
...Hall of Mirrors of Rome's block-long Quirinale Palace. Italy's 70-year-old President Giovanni Gronchi swore in his good friend Amintore Fanfani, 50, as Premier, along with a Cabinet of 19. Not since Italy became a Republic after World War II had an Italian government leaned so far to the left...
...Spare. An outspoken advocate of New Dealish reforms in Italy, Fanfani promptly looked left. Aided by Italy's Christian Democratic President Giovanni Gronchi, Fanfani won agreement from Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats to join him in a left-of-center anti-Communist coalition. The Christian Democrats' 272 votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement...
This season La Scala's new Artistic Director Francesco Siciliani began needling Ghiringhelli about pampering prima donnas. Even before Callas' celebrated walkout on a Rome audience including Italian President Gronchi last January (TIME, Jan. 13), Ghiringhelli pointedly skipped his ritual of meeting her at the airport with flowers...
Maria Callas' husband, wealthy retired Manufacturer Giovanni Battista Meneghini, announced that "she is very, very, very sick." Callas herself apologized to President Gronchi, spoke to the press of a "lowering of the voice" ("It has happened to many singers before me, and now it was my turn"). The manager of the Rome opera house had still another explanation: Callas had celebrated New Year's Eve at a Rome nightclub "without due precautions...