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...Eggs. Via Veneto's regulars have their appointed places. At Rosati's Café, strollers can spot most nights Novelist Alberto Moravia, Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, or, after Midnight, Film Star Anna Magnani and Director Vittorio De Sica. Across the street, the Strega's tables swarm with so many starlets and bit players that harried directors have been known to hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders...
...Communist says that a document is "a fabrication of the enemies of the people and agents of imperialism who entered the ranks of our party by deceitful means," a Communist who had a hand in preparing that document might be expected to stay quiet. Not so Vittorio Vidali, Communist boss of Trieste. No sooner had Vidali read Comrade Khrushchev's fulsome apology to ex-Comrade Tito last week than he was ready with a counterblast that denied it all. "Our surprise at that statement," wrote Vidali, "has been enormous. Our party has been shaken ... in the same way that...
Trieste-born Vittorio Vidali was proud when he got the assignment to bring Tito down. "This means," said one of his aides, "that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito." It hurt Vidali's professional pride to hear described as fake the careful documentation he and Palmiro Togliatti had built up against Tito, which was read out at the 1948 meeting of the Cominform, when Tito was expelled...
...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 of his May Day speech to telling the Slovene Reds in effect that they must submit to Rome...
...dance." Still, it might be advisable to have a look at the picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count count (Michael Rennie), Vittorio sees his chance to do some three-cushion pimping. In the upshot Silvana gets drunk at a costume ball, has an experience with...