Word: iotti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacationing Communist Boss Palmlro Togliatti, apparently recovered from his spring sunstroke (TIME, May 30), disported himself gaily at his favorite fun-and-games resort in the Italian Alps. With him were a passel of relatives and Red-riding hoods, as well as his aging doxy-soxer girl friend Leonilde Iotti. The entourage's most notable hood was Togliatti's shadowlike Bodyguard Armando ("Armandino") Rosati. Italy's anti-Communist press chortled mightily at the idea of taking thuggish Armandino along on a peaceful holiday. Sample snide caption (in Rome's Il Tempo): "Togliatti is caught...
...wall of the public registrar's office in the village of Campogalliano (5½ miles off the main road from Modena to Bologna), hangs a large portrait of Garibaldi. From under beetling brows, the old revolutionary soldier looks down on two municipal workers: Ostilio Iotti, 26, whose wife is rich but not pretty, and Santina Caffani, a widow of 30 or more. Together they keep the village records and accounts. Last summer a rumor sprang up that Ostilio and Santina were more to each other than coworkers; the sofa in the registrar's office was often mentioned...
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