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...Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, who followed Berlinguer to the green hill towns of Calabria, is the son of a distinguished linguistics professor who migrated to the U.S. in the '30s and settled in New Jersey, where he taught for many years at Princeton University Consequently, his son got his education in that area (Lawrenceville, Princeton High School, Columbia University) and, after an apprenticeship in local newspapers, joined TIME-LIFE...
Although regional elections are not comparable to national ones and the Christian Democrats usually do better in national votes, the Communists hope to improve on the 33% they won last year. This is far from certain. The latest poll published by Rome's pro-Socialist daily La Repubblica showed Christian Democrats gaining by a percentage point, to put them three points beyond the Communists. Berlinguer, in a perhaps deliberately gloomy assessment last week, agreed with the trend...
During World War II the young Berlinguer became the secretary of Sassari's Young Communist League, was arrested for taking part in food riots and freed after a hundred days in jail. He soon moved to Rome to work in the party's headquarters there and became a protégé of Togliatti. By the age of 23, Berlinguer had won a seat on the party's central committee and been tabbed as a comer; after that, he gradually worked his way to the top until he succeeded Togliatti's successor, the aging...
...Premier. In fact, though, such a cult is growing as Berlinguer drives up and down Italy in a chauffeured Fiat, making major campaign appearances. Berlinguer himself is a shoo-in for the Chamber of Deputies; taking advantage of a curious election law, he is a candidate in three places: Rome, Venice and the mountain town of Avezzano in Abruzzi. Should he win all three, he would choose one -probably Rome-and pass on the remaining two to other Communists. Berlinguer, who becomes a magnetic orator on the campaign trail, is using his notoriety to flail Christian Democrats "who have enjoyed...
...gathered at the Piazza Fera for a Communist campaign rally at which the featured speaker was Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Shortly afterward, Perelli and Gelsomino met at the intersection of Corso Mazzini and Via Manzoni. There they discussed the rally in a dialogue recorded by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante...