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...almost four years the mysterious drowning of a Roman carpenter's daughter has been postwar Italy's biggest political scandal. The discovery of the half-clad body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi on a beach near Rome in April 1953 very nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy...
...bottom of all the fuss was the accusation that Foreign Minister Piccioni's son Piero, a 35-year-old jazz pianist, had abandoned Wilma Montesi to the waves while she was stupefied by drugs. The fact that the police had at first declared her death accidental was attributed to pressure brought to bear by Ugo Montagna, a bogus Sicilian marquis of inexplicable wealth and impressive contacts among the upper reaches of the Christian Democratic Party...
...willingness to administer equal justice under the law. As witness after witness-some 200-contributed his piece of the puzzle, all Italy read column after, column of newsprint on the trial, searching suspiciously for signs of favoritism or a fix. And, under the eyes of all Italy, the Montesi affair slowly but unmistakably changed from "Italy's Dreyfus case" to a sordid little family scandal...
...tabloid editors last week, every day was good nudes day. At the Wilma Montesi manslaughter trial in Venice, a black-haired beauty known as the Black Swan said that in her set, boys and girls always stripped for tea. Jayne Mansfield dropped her shoulder straps to show photographers considerable acreage of a "head-to-toe" poison-ivy rash. And a New York censor ruled that an art-movie producer would have to banish his surrealist Muse or put some clothes...
...Last week Piero Piccioni, jazz-playing son of the ex-Foreign Minister, was released from jail, pending trial. Roman newspapers broadly hinted that police had not been able to link him to Wilma Montesi's death...