Word: turin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giovanni Roveda is still a child of revolution, has spent almost all his life on the barricades of Italy's reddest and most aggressive union movement. Roveda was leader of the workers who occupied the Turin factories in the uprising of 1921. Mussolini put him in jail for eleven years. In the wartime Italian resistance he was captured by the Fascists, escaped a firing squad at Verona. He became a Communist Senator and mayor of industrial Turin (pop. 726,618). Then in 1946 he was instructed to resign as mayor, and became instead secretary-general of the powerful, Communist...
...keep in suing trim, Gina last year got entangled in suits involving 1) ownership of a house, 2) a Turin vermouth firm (for using her picture to advertise its wine), 3) a radiologist (who charged that Gina had welched on a 15,000 lire X-ray bill...
...Eiffel Tower (1,301,152 visitors last year), the Prades Music Festival (July 2-20). France has the Paris International Trade Fair (May 14-30), an international dance festival at Aix-les-Bains (July 23-Aug. 7). Italy offers the International Music Festival at Taormina (June 1-10), the Turin Sports Exhibition (May 2 5-June 19), Rome's Feast of St. Peter (June 29), Florence's May music festival, the Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera at the Caracalla Baths during June, July and August. For the first time this year Italians expect thousands of visitors...
Fiats for Families. For Italy's industrial workers the rising production meant a wage increase of 3.5% last year. Unemployment is almost nonexistent in the heavy industries of Milan and Turin, with an actual shortage of skilled labor in the building trades. In many families, three or more people are working full time, enabling them to put money aside for that dream of dreams-a car. At the Fiat factory alone, more than 1,000 workmen are on the waiting list to buy their company's new, $950 Fiat...
...these operations for themselves. Since the end of World War II, when TIME'S international editions succeeded the special wartime editions for the armed forces abroad, our editorial offices have become a magnet for foreign journalists. They have come to us from, among other places, Helsinki and Karachi, Turin and Cali...