ITALY: Successful Squeeze

At a secluded cliffside villa near Naples early last week, scarcely an hour passed without the insistent jangle of the telephone or the arrival of a score of pleading telegrams, the arrival or departure of a pezzo grosso (big shot). Finally the white-haired old gentleman in the villa gave in —as he probably intended to do all along. And so, five days after his resignation as president of Italy's Constitutional Court (TIME, Oct. 1), shrewd Enrico de Nicola, 78, went back to his job.

From the moment De Nicola quit as Chief Justice in protest at the government's failure to...

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