Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forum on what to do about the Appia, Rome's Giornale d'ltalia decided that public opinion is so diverse "as to embarrass anyone who wants to draw active and positive conclusions." Whizzing along the highroad of a new 20th century Renaissance in their motor scooters and Alfa Romeos, the great mass of Italians seemed quite content to let the old Via Appia find its own way into the future as it had out of the past. "We too are making history," said one Roman, "and who knows-maybe our descendants will find the ruins of our buildings...
...prison clothes. "This gabardine I am wearing is newly cleaned and pressed," he explained, "and I don't want to get it dirty. I want to leave here like a gentleman.'' One of Montagna's first visitors was a handsome blonde driving a sleek Alfa Romeo, who was promptly turned away by the prison guards when she tried to leave him a bouquet of red carnations to decorate his cell...
...onetime bus mechanic, Fangio is a suave, taciturn showman who learned his racing in Argentina during World War II. By 1948 he was ready to go abroad. A skilled and careful driver, he whipped across the tracks of postwar Europe like a well-controlled whirlwind. Driving an Italian Alfa Romeo, he won a fistful of prizes...
...signed up at Yale's engineering school, but gave it up at the end of his sophomore year and married Lucie Bedford, daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...
...hunting lodge was run by the St. Hubert Club, whose membership list included the Pope's personal physician, high Vatican lay officials, and Piero Piccioni, jazz-pianist son of Scelba's Foreign Minister. Wilma was allegedly seen in a car like young Piccioni's black Alfa Romeo just before her death. His chief informants, said Muto, were two girls who had participated in the dope parties...