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...named his children after the heroes of Italy's risorgimento. Amintore was named after the man who wrote Hymn of the Workers, a labor union song which the Communists have since stolen. Amintore was still a bright young student, a particular whiz at math and physics, when Mussolini kicked his father out of Parliament for his liberalism...
...years that followed, Teresa proved herself a staunch and loyal helpmate to both Luigi and the party, as he became the Communists' chief organizer and disciplinarian. She helped organize strikes. Whenever Luigi was carted off to a Mussolini jail, Teresa uncomplainingly took over his party chores. She fled with him to France and to Russia, fought by his side in the Spanish Civil War. In underground papers she edited, Teresa laid down the party line, and she also wrote three proletarian novels. No one ever questioned her ardor or orthodoxy. Presumably no more congenial pair existed...
...Florence was caught up in La Pira's latest Christian endeavor: persuading the government to take over the shut-down Pi-gnone factory on Florence's outskirts, the oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January of 350 workers, leaving...
Letter & Spirit. Last week Mayor La Pira was in Rome-where many officials in the Pella government affectionately call him "Giorgio"-trying to persuade the government to run Pignone and save 1,750 jobs. (The government-run Institute for Industrial Reconstruction, an inheritance from Mussolini, keeps several plants going at a loss rather than add their workers to Italy's unemployment rolls.) Fumed Giorgio La Pira: "This coldly calculated liquidation has offended the city of Florence. Seldom, as in this case, has the letter of the law served to cover so much inhumanity of spirit...
...Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills, he talks like Babbitt and acts like Mussolini...