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...Communists were honoring the Congress of the National Italian Partisans Association and a distinguished guest, General Sidor Kovpak, vice president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals...
...crowd. A toothless, middle-aged woman, dressed in black save for a gay bandanna around her head, came hobbling down the street. "For two years I have not been able to walk," she cried. "I was carried to the Father. Now look at me. I'm walking. Viva Padre Antonio." Those who followed her joined in a throaty "Viva." Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused. Two women with her wept. Men doffed their hats as she moved slowly past...
Grand Guy. The big viva was far from being synthetic. President Alemán, tanned and affable, carried with him a kind of movie-star glamor. He smiled a big, beaming smile, waved boyishly at the crowds. People liked him-especially the girls. "He's cute," they said...
...Capital Transit Company agreed to fly small U.S. and Mexican flags from its streetcars and buses; the Pan-American Union donated 250 blow-ups of Mexican scenes for store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned...
...Viva Gli Zulu!" Last June, bonfires in Anticoli's square and the Red Flag fluttering from Roviano's tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election...