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...Italians, Barzini...
NONFICTION 1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1) 2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2) 3. The Italians, Barzini (3) 4. My Autobiography, Chaplin (4) 5. The Kennedy Years, the New York Times and Viking Press (5) 6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler ( 7 ) 7. The Words, Sartre ( 6 ) 8. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake 9. The Future of Man, De Chardin ( 9 ) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Italians, Barzini...
...bestseller, The Italians, a penetrating study of his own people, Author Luigi Barzini noted his countrymen's talent for making a mess of things but doing it with great flair. Last week, as a Liberal (right-wing) Deputy in the National Assembly, Barzini participated in an Italian reversal of form. After 13 days and 20 frustrating ballots in which no one gained a majority, the Assembly finally elected Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat, 66, President of Italy. "They picked the best man," said Barzini whimsically, "but in the worst possible...
Most Italians agree with Barzini that the best man won. Honest and tenacious, Saragat is both a poet and a visionary who dreams of a United Europe. But his more immediate concern will be the uniting of Italy itself. The presidential election showed once again the creaky nature of the nation's political system, with its multiplicity of parties. It also produces new strains in Premier Aldo Moro's ruling center-left coalition and among the Christian Democrats, who after 18½ years of ruling Italy, have become more a collection of factions than a coherent political party...