Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palais des Expositions, glittering new MG, Alfa Romeo and Mercedes models had been assembled for the city's annual automobile exhibition. There was only mild competition from the diplomats meeting in that hall of doom, the League of Nations' old Palais, for last week's 17-nation disarmament conference. The West at least went out of its way to offer new accessories, but the Russian delegates had scarcely bothered to touch up their old, familiar model...
EACH opening night during the opera season, Milan's Via Manzoni is transformed from a bustling commercial street to a river of wealth and elegance. Bumper to bumper, a seemingly endless line of Mercedes, Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Maseratis inches toward the Piazza della Scala, their high-powered engines being raced by traffic-frustrated drivers. Pulling up before La Scala's neoclassic facade, the cars discharge their cargoes-usually an Italian businessman, resplendent in white tie, and his bejeweled wife, dressed in a Fontana, Capucci or Dior...
...Alfa-Romeo's Sprint Speciale Giulietta, designed by Bertone and costing...
...found them." Largely self-employed, the most successful of Milan klaxoners take in as much as $160 nightly, charging about $20 for a ride to a 45-minute assignation in hotel, pension or apartment. Some, starting with a down payment on a tiny Fiat 600, have worked up to Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Fords equipped with bar, reclining seats, recorded music and soft lights...
Cruising around town in a new Brazilian version of the Alfa Romeo called the JK, Kubitschek signed autographs and shook hands by the thousands before turning up at a special midnight Mass. Out of bed after four hours of sleep, he raised a flag over the new capital, attended a joint session of Congress (where the air conditioning failed), watched a parade of 5,000 troops and 10,000 workers as 38 tons of fireworks...