Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron and half its steel, enjoys a monopoly or near monopoly of rail, sea and air transport, and competes with private industry in the manufacture of scores of products ranging from chocolates to Alfa Romeo cars...
...without regrets ("After all, my wife is the greatest singer in the world"). Whenever she goes onstage, he kisses her, utters the customary European good-luck wish, "Merde." He presents her with a bright cluster of expensive jewelry every time she sings a new role, gave her an Alfa Romeo ("If an ordinary artist has a Cadillac, how can I own a Cadillac?"), and a four-storied, $100,000 town house in Milan...
...Able to Alfa...
...000th postwar car next month, is going into the middle-class market with a new de luxe model. Instead of the familiar, beetlelike lines, Volkswagen's Ghia Coupé car will have low, sporty lines, look something like Italy's swank ($3,500 and up) Alfa Romeo. Price: $1,785 in Germany...
...foreground are the Italian bolidi-Alfa-Romeos, Ferraris, Maseratis-here and there a Mercedes and a Gordini; much elegant metal and, no doubt, to fanciers of horsepower, a sight prettier than slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into...