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...Scelba's ministers kept their old jobs, including Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, a Liberal, Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, a Christian Democrat, and Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, leader of the non-Communist Socialists...
From Washington, the Premier went on a week-long whirl through New York, Philadelphia. Detroit and Chicago (Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino was going to San Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
Dudley was handicapped in inexperience. Only two men, John Coyne and tackle Al Farbman, have played House football before this season. Leading their attack was adept sophomore quarterback Joe Martino, who weighs barely 130 pounds...
...about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left by the French rejection...
Clerical circles were alarmed when Premier Mario Scelba, also a Sicilian, picked Martino as Minister of Education seven months ago, because Martino is firmly opposed to clerical influence in public schools. But Martino concentrated on the noncontroversial job of refurbishing Italy's run-down public-school system, became one of the Scelba Cabinet's brightest stars. The first Italian Foreign Minister since the late Carlo Sforza who can carry on a conversation in English (passably), French (pretty well) or Spanish (fluently), Martino is a sturdy supporter of the Western Alliance, a "good European" who believes that the defeat...