Venus Or The Virgin?

August, 1974

Somebody once said that a good prime minister is a man who knows something about everything and nothing about anything. I wince--an American foreign correspondent, stationed in Rome, covering Italy, Greece, Turkey, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, Libya, Egypt and the entire Middle East. For example: Last year I was sent off to report on pollution around Capri, steel in Taranto, which (as journalists say) "nestles" under the heel of the peninsula, the Italo-American project for uncovering the...

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