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...newspaper following which Pella had built up petered away within hours of his resignation; two of Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible in the present situation," said Turin's La Stampa, which is owned by Fiat. Added Milan's respected Corriere della Sera: "The rank and file of the party, supported by a large percentage of the clergy and even the episcopate, have turned left ... at the same time that the Christian Democratic Party hierarchy has stood still...
...sharecropper's cottage near Biella in the Piedmont, Pella was so bright in school that his parents were relieved of school taxes. Papa and Mamma Pella worked days and nights in a Piedmont spinning mill to send their only child on to the University of Turin (finance and economics) and into the business world. At 30 he commanded big fees as a consultant to the Piedmont textile industry. He went to Rome in 1946 as a parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance Ministry to help promote his hard...
...Lana Turner, 33, cinemactress (The Merry Widow); and Lex Barker, 34, Hollywood's tenth Tarzan of the Apes; he for the third time, she for the fifth (her previous marriages to Millionaire Playboy Bob Topping. Businessman Steven Crane-two marriages-Bandleader Artie Shaw, all ended in divorce); in Turin, Italy...
...Turin, Italy's fourth largest city, is the capital of Italian industry. It is also the biggest company town in the world, dominated by a single colossus world-famed for its name: Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Almost two-thirds of Turin's 735,000 people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat...
Wheat Turning Gold. Three weeks ago on May Day, De Gasperi stood in Turin to watch a three-hour parade of Italian workers buzzing past on Vespas. the sleek little 4½-h.p. motor scooters which are fast becoming for Italians what the model T was for American workers. "Just look," exclaimed the Premier. "And may the miserable government over which I preside also be blamed for this...