Word: palmiro
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...free trade unions, CISL and UIL, 69.4% of their vote and 133 of the 178 seats on the trade union committee. The Communists got nine seats less than last time, though they waged an all-out campaign, led by activists carefully trained in a six-month course at Palmiro Togliatti Institute. Though the Communists labeled the free trade unions "docile to the will of il padrone (the boss),'' Fiat workers had come to see that they won pay raises under the free unions. Nor did they lose man-hours and pay packets on wasteful strikes (which were reduced...
...raised a few heartburns among the Communists themselves. The trouble was most apparent in Italy, which has the largest Communist Party outside Communist territory. In Rome last week 500 Reds, wearing red scarves and calling themselves Democratic Communists, marched through the streets shouting protests against the "soft" leadership of Palmiro Togliatti...
...Roman court auction of confiscated goods, Italy's ailing Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti popped up as the only bidder for a treasured souvenir, a ,38-cal. pistol, plus four cartridges (one unfired), the implements of an assassination try made on Togliatti in 1948 by a Sicilian student. Going, going, gone...
...Nenni, 64, the yeasty, eloquent leader of Italy's Red Socialists. Ever since the center-right Christian Democratic coalition proved itself unstable, Italian politicians have been hypnotized by the possibility of an alliance with Nenni's party. But could Nenni be detached from his warm partnership with Palmiro Togliatti and the Communists? Some said he could be, some said he could not. Nenni simply said: Why don't you try me and find...
...Vittorio Vidali was proud when he got the assignment to bring Tito down. "This means," said one of his aides, "that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito." It hurt Vidali's professional pride to hear described as fake the careful documentation he and Palmiro Togliatti had built up against Tito, which was read out at the 1948 meeting of the Cominform, when Tito was expelled...