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...outside Pavia, his 120 craftsmen carefully hand-machined each part, painstakingly fitted the parts together. Even by these old-fashioned methods, Necchi was turning out 60,000 machines a year in prewar days. World War II cut production to 60 machines a day and cost the company 400 million lire ($4,000,000) in war damages. But at war's end, Necchi executives dug out a stock of sewing machines they had hidden from the Germans, and with them, went after the export market...
...Communist has become too much of a luxury," said ex-Comrade Angelo Bardi. "It isn't only the party dues [200 lire a month], it's all the contributing that comes afterwards. Every day someone from the party comes begging for contributions-for L'Unita, for the funeral of persecuted citizens of some country I don't know, for help for jailed comrades, for comrades who have just got out of jail, or for a gift for Comrade Secchia [Italy's No. 3 Communist]. They solicit contributions for Indo-Chinese comrades, for Chinese guerrillas...
...zone of notable public interest," in which no new buildings may be built or existing décor altered without government consent.* Last week Italian architects were hard at work on plans for the restoration of the street. The government had offered a prize of 1,000,000 lire ($1,600) for the best plan, recommending that the offending garage "be considered an object of special study." Both artists and government hope to get the Via Margutta back to the way it was, as the late Roman poet Augusto Jandolo (1873-1952) described it: "A quiet street, anything but severe...
After he was installed as mayor, Anzilotti set about fulfilling his promise. He raised $17,000 by popular subscription, put aside $2,400 as prize money, and invited artists from all over Italy to submit designs for the Pinocchio memorial. Tempted by so grand a prize (1,500,000 lire), 84 sculptors and architects sent in projects: merry Pinocchios, realistic Pinocchios, sad Pinocchios, surrealist Pinocchios. Last week the prize jury announced its decision: it would split the award money between Painter Venturino Venturi and Sculptor Emilio Greco, build not one but two Pinocchio memorials...
...attended Mass with them in the factory courtyard, talked strategy with the Communist-dominated union committee, and showed the workers that someone besides the Communists was active in their interests. Merchants donated meat, fish, pasta, bread, wine and cigarettes; the city and provincial councils scraped up 3,000,000 lire ($4,800) for the workers' families. La Pira fired off a letter to the Vatican, got a papal blessing on his campaign...