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Extra Rubles. That time has not, of course, come for the ordinary Russian as yet. But the very fact that the Kremlin holds up the goal as an ideal is a remarkable turnabout in Communist ideology. So, too, is the newly christened town of Togliatti, the Russian Detroit on the Volga, where a huge Fiat automobile plant is being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly...
...with Moscow and the satellites, removing hundreds of items from the list of goods that American businessmen have been prohibited from selling the Communists. Among them: machinery and equipment, whose purchase is to be financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, for use in the Fiat automobile factory in Togliatti. There may yet be a Ford in Ivan's future...
...Moro's men were quick to boast that the outcome proved the worth of the Centra Sinistra, the ruling center-left coalition created largely for the purpose of isolating the Commu nists. It also reflected the absence of an effective successor to the late Communist Party boss Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's growing affluence, and the increasing moderation of Italian voters...
...Duce himself followed the pattern when he took up with the beautiful Clara Petacci in place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...
...that the coalition experiment had not yet had time to prove itself. By now it has been given plenty of time-and has accomplished little or nothing. In the municipal elections, all the tides were supposed to be running against the Reds: Italy's longtime Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti was dead; Khrushchev was out; and for the first time since the death of Pope John, Italy's Roman Catholic bishops were actively antiCommunist...