The Independent - London, November 22nd, 1999
SHORTLY AFTER being elected chairman of the UN General Assembly in 1965, Amintore Fanfani tripped and broke his foot. According to popular legend, he exploited the mishap for some of his characteristically wry self-analysis in a letter to party colleagues: "It's not the first time I've fallen, and it won't be the first time that I've pull myself back up again."
"Il rieccolo" - "Here he is again" - as Fanfani was dubbed by the veteran commentator Indro Montanelli on one of his many returns to the political limelight, is often remembered for the spectacular failures which sidelined him: not bei...
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