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...mother country will appear in Washington, Philadelphia and elsewhere - though not until a couple of days after the main event. The elfin pop singer Elton John will come to a Boston Bicentennial concert tricked out as the Statue of Liberty in silver-sequined robe. Italian Americans in Rome, N.Y., will celebrate with one of history's biggest spaghetti dinners - 600 Ibs. of pasta and 600 Ibs. of sausage for a crowd of up to 3,000. For 76 consecutive hours, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will be on display at the National Archives...
That strategy proved to be effective -but only to a point. The Communists gained votes in all 20 Italian regions and came close to winning control of Rome's municipal government. In Parliament, the P.C.I. gained 48 additional Chamber of Deputies seats, for a total of 227 (out of 630). Berlinguer, running for three different seats, won them all, and in Rome gained the election's largest total of preferential votes (279,158). In the Senate, the Communists won 22 more seats, for a total of 116 (out of 315). The Christian Democrats, however, gathered 14.2 million votes...
...glow of celebrity to the legislatures. From Turin, for instance, comes Count Luigi Rossi di Montelra, Christian Democrat Deputy and vermouth empire executive (Martini & Rossi), who was kidnaped three years ago; the Count won public accolades for the exemplary stoicism he displayed during the 120-day ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded his sister Susanna Agnelli, a first-time Deputy who is also mayor of Porto Santo Stefano, a fashionable resort town on the Tuscan coast...
...order, but it is clear that their strength is that of men, not of enduring institutions, and that the fall of the empire is inescapable. Gibbon is no moralist intent on admonisinng modern readers, and he has no interest in encouraging American Patriots in rebellion, but he does demonstrate Rome's lessons for other peoples...
Privately, the author has observed that Rome fell because of "the inevitable effect of immoderate greatness," adding that the question should not be why the empire collapsed, but how it managed to subsist for so long. Such epigrams amuse, but do not edify; for fuller explanations, the reader will have to wait for the concluding volumes of this profound and ambitious work...