title: Bivouac in the Piazza di Spagna
abstract: There has been no “Vietnam Summer” in Italy. Europe's largest communist party dispersed itself to the beaches or the mountains, with the party big-shots getting their reward-holidays among the baroque comforts of Marienbad or Yalta. This was fortunate for the Italian police, who then were able to devote their full attention to the growing summer menace of teenage subversion, whose agents they have learned to recognise by their long hair and extravagant attire. The right-wing press campaign in It