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...free-trial period, a copy of L'Unità arrives with an unsolicited gift-a party card made out to the head of the family. But the party's drive for new members is uphill most of the way. Example: in the Red stronghold of Genoa, the number of registered party members has dropped from 90,000 in 1956 to 55,000 last year...
Italian industrial production, still largely concentrated in the "iron triangle" of Milan, Turin and Genoa, has doubled in the past eight years. So avidly does the rest of the world gobble up Italian products that the nation's balance-of-payments surplus is the envy of the U.S. Treasury. Buoyed by these achievements, North Italian businessmen, who once argued that they could hold their home markets only with the help of protectionism, today swagger forth on a Common Market invasion of the rest of Europe with all the self-assurance of the Caesars...
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...streamline E.N.I.'s petroleum distribution system, Mattei is building a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland and on beyond into West Germany. He also plans a line from Venice to Wiener Neustadt in Austria, only 40 miles from the terminus of a projected Soviet line. Rumors-which Mattei neither confirms nor denies -have it that he plans to link his system directly to the Soviets...
...fiscal frustrations of the priestly life in the context of Italy's new prosperity are the main cause of the vocation gap. As Don Luigi Noli, who is in charge of vocations for the Genoa diocese, puts it: "Young people today think they know how to live. Before they're 18 they expect to earn 100,000 lire [$160] a month. How can you persuade them to become priests...