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...long career of violence and intrigue, Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti has proved himself a man of many lives. He escaped a Fascist firing squad in 1922 an instant before the rifles went off. A raid by comrades rescued him from a Spanish death sentence in 1939. He survived three assassins' bullets in 1948. Luck and a surgeon who bored four holes in Togliatti's skull saved him after a severe automobile crash...
Last week the man of many lives was waging another match with death. On May Day Togliatti journeyed to Trieste to deliver Italian Communism's principal May Day speech. He also had to tackle a serious jurisdictional problem that flared up when Italy regained control of Trieste, and threatens to heat up further if Yugoslavia and Russia come closer to a reconciliation. The Trieste Communist Party has a heavy Slovene membership, and its fiery boss, Vittorio Vidali, is resisting Togliatti's efforts to take over the Trieste party now that Trieste is Italian again. Togliatti devoted part...
Words of Lava. Togliatti's characteristically effective oratory flowed like lava across the big crowd in Trieste's Valmaura sports stadium. As he spoke, the hot sun beat down on him. Suddenly, after 45 minutes of his harangue, Togliatti gasped and slid heavily into a nearby chair. His secretary and girl friend, Leonilde lotti, handed him an aspirin tablet: Togliatti swallowed it, then stood up, apologized for "my slight indisposition" and finished his speech in a few minutes...
...Stalingrad. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti could do nothing about his defeat on the farms. But he had to do something about his defeat in the factories. He hastily assembled the Central Committee and announced a "critical inquiry" of Communist union policy. In an attempt to check the rebellion with a show of strength, the Communists picked Genoa, where their power in the unions is almost undisputed, and succeeded in all but closing down the port...
...shop stewards. The vote surprised everybody, including the Communists themselves. They had sent in their leading labor orator, Giuseppe di Vittorio, and they had campaigned hard. They knew that their union strength in Italy was slipping (from 90% of the workers in 1949 to 60% last year). Yet Togliatti's Communists felt that the Fiat fortress was safe. When 49,600 Fiat workers balloted last week, the Communist vote fell a surprising 27%. The Communists, who previously had 100 shop stewards, elected only 55. The two non-Communist unions between them elected 133 stewards...