ITALY: Man of Many Lives

In his long career of violence and intrigue, Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti has proved himself a man of many lives. He escaped a Fascist firing squad in 1922 an instant before the rifles went off. A raid by comrades rescued him from a Spanish death sentence in 1939. He survived three assassins' bullets in 1948. Luck and a surgeon who bored four holes in Togliatti's skull saved him after a severe automobile crash in 1950.

Last week the man of many lives was waging another match with death. On May Day Togliatti journeyed to Trieste to deliver Italian...