Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People's Day. Politically, Togliatti was quite himself. In his absence, tough, spiteful Luigi Longo had run the Italian Communist Party without any of Togliatti's suave, serge-suited craftiness. Loudly, Longo had threatened insurrection, had ordered unpopular (and unsuccessful) nationwide strikes. At a closed meeting of the party's Central Committee, Togliatti last week listened to Longo defend his policy, then flatly contradicted him. Said Togliatti: "We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement . . . Our objective is still gaining a majority by preserving all our old alliances and making new ones. Let us beware...
...ancient streets of Rome the old Togliatti touch was also in evidence. Togliatti called a local strike which sounded innocent enough, but which was more effective (and smelled worse) than anything the Italian Communist Party had tried in a long time...
Bread & Lipstick. Next day, Rome knew which way the wind blew. Forty-five hundred street cleaners went on strike at the Communists' call. It was a strike in sympathy for municipal white-collar workers who had also walked out. Suddenly, the street cleaners remembered that an Italian law forbids "sympathy" and political strikes. Hastily, they trumped up some "legitimate" wage demands (their present wages are equivalent or superior to those of Roman high-school teachers). Exclaimed Communist Francesco Giacinti, one of the strike leaders: "The government has raised the price of bread but not of lipstick...
Near Turin, Cinemactor Orson Welles was feeling shaky. He and his new friend, Italian Cinemactress Lea Padovani, were crash-landed in a pasture on their way to a benefit. No bones broken...
...Baseball, What Is That?" San Francisco, where Joe grew up, is still the city he knows best. He comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...