Word: segni
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...learn to do zee bar-bee-cue." That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant with a lusty audience sing-along of Puff, the Magic Dragon...
...battle to control the whole party. Just the reverse. Because the Christian Democrats' factions are split by ambitions rather than ideology, several top party members are gunning for him. Among them: ex-Premier Armintore Fanfani, Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, who heads the faction that includes President Antonio Segni...
...coming anyway. Some economists believe that Italy will be hit by a major crisis around Christmastime unless Moro gets a firm hold on the economy. Such a crisis, or even a minor crisis like a school-aid bill, could well topple the Cabinet again, and might force President Segni to call the elections no one (except possibly the Reds) really wants...
Conceivably, President Segni could call for new national elections. What seems more likely, however, is that Moro's caretaker Cabinet will continue its somewhat bumbling rule until it can rearrange another center-left coalition to continue nursing the inflation-weakened Italian economy, which was recently stabilized by an infusion of $1.2 billion in foreign credits...
...Venice Biennale where the critics booed, the cardinal banned, the Americans beamed, and nearly everyone boozed. Apparently incensed by some rubbishy but relatively innocuous nudes, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, declared the international art show off limits to all priests and nuns. President Antonio Segni thereupon absented himself as official host and prize giver. But this scarcely dimmed the carnival spirits of the cocktail set. Greek-born Iris Clert won the unofficial party-thrower prize by hiring a yacht, tying it up in the Grand Canal, and calling it the Biennale Flottante; inevitably...