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...Palmiro Togliatti was back. Three months after his attempted assassination (TIME, July 26), he still looked pale; his voice no longer seemed to carry the old, metallic ring. When Togliatti appeared at a Communist rally in Rome last week, a plump countrywoman wiped her eyes. "Poor dear," she said. "He must still be ill, he's not his old self...
...Rome, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was feeling tiptop for the first time since he was laid low by a would-be assassin last July 14. He presided at a meeting of the Communist Central Committee, addressed a wildly cheering political meeting of 150,000, and expected to go back to his seat in Parliament...
...Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's boss Communist, had benefited by rest and good doctoring. He moved home from the hospital, "notably improved," 17 days after his shooting by a would-be assassin. But he was going to keep right on resting in private for a while. He asked everybody "not to ask to visit me or to talk to me even for the shortest periods of time...
...Worst Possible Thing." One morning last week, while a hot sun beat down on Rome for the first time in weeks, Pallante sat in the visitors' gallery and watched Palmiro Togliatti. After a while the Sicilian went outside and lurked in the narrow, cobblestoned Via della Missione. Shortly before noon, he saw his prey coming out- Togliatti and Leonilda Iotti, full-bosomed, warm-eyed secretary to the Red parliamentary bloc. Togliatti & friend were bound for a gelateria and a cooling dish of ice cream. They paid no heed to the young man in the ill-fitting blue suit...
...there when it happened-well, almost. From Rome last week, junketing Hollywood Columnist Louella O. Parsons cabled a gushing lead to the Hearstpapers: "Wouldn't you know that I'd be within two blocks of the scene at the very time Angelo* Pallante attempted to kill Palmiro Togliatti, the most dangerous Communist in Italy!" Louella's story: she and Actress Merle Oberon were on a shopping expedition when the attempted assassination took place. The tragic result: "Neither of us was able to finish the buying of gifts we hoped to take home...