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...picaresque little man hero, Rugantino (Nino Manfredi), who wants to be the kind of I came-I pinched-I conquered-I told male who has always appealed to the Latin imagination as the quintessence of manhood. When he starts his ego building exercises in the bedroom of Rosetta (Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into an aristocratic wake...
Died. Ezio Vanoni, 52, Italy's Budget Minister and Acting Treasury Minister; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after finishing a Senate address; in Rome. One of the builders of the Christian Democratic Party, Vanoni entered politics during the resistance, served in nearly every Cabinet since 1947. Among his achievements: the introduction of Italy's income-tax return, a ten-year plan to provide jobs for Italy's 2,000,000 chronically unemployed...
Four years ago, Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni created a stir by requiring all Italians to make out annual tax returns. Roberto Tremelloni, Finance Minister in the Scelba government, went even further. Tremelloni introduced a bill which would for the first time 1) require an oath in making out. returns, and 2) exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni...
...Communists. The Reds, oozing good-fellowship, as much as implied that "the spirit of Geneva" required all parties to get together. Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed are still the Communists' best asset, but according to a series of tables euphemistically described as a "plan" by Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, jobs could be found for them all by 1964. The only unanswered question was: where would the money come from to finance the projects that would provide the jobs? Vanoni obviously expected the U.S. to cough...
...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...