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...from 22.3% to 17.5%). The dominant Christian Democrats increased their vote (from 41% to 41.8%). But the real surprise of the election was the showing made on his first campaign in Sardinia by ebullient, 72-year-old Achille Lauro, founder and sole proprietor of Italy's Popular Monarchist Party-Italy's most colorful politician...
...Monarchist in name only-the autographed portrait of King Umberto II that graced his desk has recently disappeared -Lauro has no illusions about restoring the House of Savoy. His more modest goal is to build the sagging Italian right into a political force strong enough to help govern Italy in coalition with the Christian Democrats...
...Kiss from Achille. Lauro began the Sardinian campaign for his Monarchist candidates by doling out 10,000 Easter eggs and 10,000 parcels of toys. These were followed by 10,000 layettes, 500,000 key cases, 100,000 aprons bearing the rampant lion of the Popular Monarchist Party, and countless babies' bibs inscribed "A Kiss from Lauro." (Of the 800 babies born in Sardinia in the past two months, 103 were christened Achille...
When the proclamation announcing Franco's fourth Cabinet in 20 years (the others: 1936, 1945, 1951) appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring...
...your story on the resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Italy [Dec. 3], the monarchist (but emphatically not fascist) press has indeed commented upon her departure. The monarchist magazine Candido, edited by Giovanni Guareschi (creator of The Little World of Don Camillo), said...