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Soundly trounced in the Senate, Italy's Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists turned to the Chamber of Deputies last week in their effort to choke the anti-Communist government of Mario Scelba with the tangled web of the Montesi case...
...city's motorists abandoned their cars in midstreet to buy each edition of each new paper. Screaming headlines proclaimed the facts: after months of inaction and seeming indifference, Italy's government had at last come to grips with the strange and threatening case of Wilma Montesi...
Corroding Confidence. For the first time, something that bore an official imprint was substituted for the deluge of black headlines and wild rumors that had sprung up because of the 18-month-old death of Wilma Montesi, the obscure daughter of a Roman carpenter. The charge laid against Piccioni was that, believing Wilma Montesi dead (presumably as a result of a drug orgy), he had left her body on a beach 13 miles outside Rome. There she had drowned in the tide. Montagna, a man of large but questioned means, and Polito were charged with aiding and abetting the manslaughter...
...Togliatti, with the support of Fellow-Traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni, threw one of his best firebrands against the government in Parliament. Before a packed Senate gallery, Red Senator Umberto Terracini recounted how Polito had served under National Police Chief Tommaso Pavone, who had resigned under the pressure of the Montesi case. And who had been Pavone's boss at the time of the Montesi girl's death? None other than Premier Scelba, who was then Minister of the Interior...
...good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said. And from a pretty quarter, he got a pretrial assist. Cinemactress Alida Valli, a onetime sojourner in Hollywood (The Third Man), announced what she considered to be an alibi for Piero. Two days before Wilma Montesi's body was found, she said, Piero had been with her, Alida, and then had gone home with a bad cold...