Word: togliatti
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...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...
...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...
...companionably discovered that he and Nikita were as one in many things. German unification (both against), a European "security" pact (both for), etc., etc. According to Nenni, the closest they came to discussing Italian politics was a casual remark of Khrushchev's: "And, by the way, how is Togliatti feeling these days?" Nenni rather implied that Khrushchev was just being polite-Togliatti has yet to receive an invitation to Yalta, or even to Moscow, from Russia's post-Stalin bosses...
...from the proletarians he claims to love, Italy's vacationing Communist Boss Palmlro Togliatti, apparently recovered from his spring sunstroke (TIME, May 30), disported himself gaily at his favorite fun-and-games resort in the Italian Alps. With him were a passel of relatives and Red-riding hoods, as well as his aging doxy-soxer girl friend Leonilde Iotti. The entourage's most notable hood was Togliatti's shadowlike Bodyguard Armando ("Armandino") Rosati. Italy's anti-Communist press chortled mightily at the idea of taking thuggish Armandino along on a peaceful holiday. Sample snide caption...
...Tito's schism, the party line called for keeping Trieste independent; finally, last year, he was supposed to cooperate in turning Trieste over to the Italians, though a goodly portion of his Trieste Communists are Slovenes. He was also pressed to give up his autonomy and submit to Togliatti (TIME, May 30), and he did not like that, either...