Word: palmiro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti, of King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Frederika of Greece...
...Italians who voted for the Communists in last May's parliamentary elections knew that they were voting for Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, but that he had no chance of becoming Premier. And a vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party...
...Italy's postwar Constituent Assembly one day in 1946, the roving eye of Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti came to rest on one of the comrades. "Let's move down a couple of benches," Togliatti suggested to an aide. "I want to sit opposite that comrade with the pretty legs." It was a fateful move...
...days, Italy's Palmiro Togliatti amazed everyone by his cocksure confidence about Moscow's ways. For more than three decades the unquestioned leader of Italian Communism, he built the party into the largest outside the Iron Curtain, formed a leftist front that captured the votes of one of every three Italians. He had spent long years in Moscow, was a big wheel in Stalin's Comintern, won such confidence from the Kremlin that he was allowed to pursue his own "Italian line" of Communism. And he knew them all personally-Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov...
Last week, ill with influenza, obviously out of favor with the new master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues...