ITALY OFF & RUNNING FOR ITALY'S 243 ELECTED SENATORS AND 596 DEPUTIES, 
ALL ROADS LED OUT OF ROME LAST WEEK . GETTING THE 
JUMP ON THE PRESIDENTIAL DECREE FORMALLY DISSOLVING PARLIAMENT, THE POLITICIANS SCURRIED 
HOME TO START CAMPAIGNING IN THE FIRST GENERAL ELECTION IN FIVE 
YEARS . IF THE APRIL 28-29 ELECTION WERE ONLY A PERSONAL 
POPULARITY CONTEST, SHORT (5 FT . 1 IN.), MUSTACHIOED PREMIER AMINTORE 
FANFANI, 55, MIGHT FIND HIMSELF OUT OF A JOB . FANFANI 
IS SHREWD, NOT SIMPATICO ,; BEHIND HIS BACK, CRITICS CALL HIM 
AND HIS AIDES I BASSOTTI (THE DACHSHUNDS) . MORE THAN FANFANI'S 
LOOKS AND COLD POLITICAL STYLE ARE AGAINST HIM . A 6 
PER CENT JUMP IN LIVING COSTS LAST YEAR TOUCHED OFF A 
PROLONGED WAVE OF STRIKES BY INDUSTRIAL AND WHITECOLLAR WORKERS ; FORTNIGHT 
AGO, 5,000,000 WORKERS QUIT THEIR JOBS IN A ONE-DAY GENERAL WALKOUT 
. FANFANI'S YEAR-OLD PARTNERSHIP WITH PIETRO NENNI'S LEFT-WING SOCIALISTS, THE APERTURA 
A SINISTRA (OPENING TO THE LEFT), HAS SHARPLY DIVIDED THE PREMIER'S 
OWN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY ; THE COALITION'S MAJOR LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT THE 
NEEDLESS AND EXPENSIVE NATIONALIZATION OF THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY, WHICH WAS NENNI'S 
PRICE FOR COLLABORATION HAS TURNED MANY BUSINESSMEN AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT . 
STILL, FANFANI FIGURES TO STAY ON TOP . OF THE SIX 
NATIONS IN THE COMMON MARKET, ITALY'S ESTIMATED 6 PER CENT GROWTH 
RATE THIS YEAR IS THE HIGHEST ; AT ABOUT 1,000,000, UNEMPLOYMENT 
IS HALF THE 1956 LEVEL . MANY ITALIANS FEAR THAT FLIRTATION 
WITH THAT OLD STALIN PRIZEWINNER PIETRO NENNI WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD ITALY 
DOWN THE PATH TO NEUTRALISM . BUT SO FAR, NENNI HAS 
PULLED TO THE RIGHT IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, AWAY FROM HIS LONGTIME 
COMMUNIST ALLIES . HE HAS EVEN HALFHEARTEDLY ENDORSED A NATO NUCLEAR 
FORCE . NENNI WAS PROBABLY SAVED A LITTLE SOCIALISTIC EMBARRASSMENT WHEN 
THE U.S . RECENTLY AGREED TO PULL ITS JUPITER MISSILES OUT 
OF ITALY . 