Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes anyway, Prince Luigi d'Angerio of Sant' Agata. Driving home from a late-night party with his wife Giuseppina and his son Alfredo, the dignified D'Angerio, 65, noticed a pair of headlights following them through the dense fog near Monza. Suddenly, an Alfa Romeo passed D'Angerio's little Fiat, and tried to force it off the road. The inept driver had pulled in front too quickly, however, and Alfredo, who was driving the Fiat, had no choice but to ram the Alfa in the side...
Hooded Prince. Angry figures emerged from the damaged Alfa. Waving pistols, they threatened to fire unless the prince got out of the car. Unimpressed by the threat, Alfredo slammed the Fiat into reverse-only to smash into a second Alfa that the kidnapers had brought along as their backup car. Finally, two of the gunmen forced the prince into the less damaged of the two Alfas. Although he was hooded, D'Angerio could tell that they were going too fast, and he yelled at them to slow down. They refused and, unable to spot a curve because...
Compared with government crises in the past, the 19 summit participants labored with uncommon zeal. Outside, chauffeurs of the 19 Alfa 2000s and Fiat 130s lined up along the villa's graveled drive, huddled over radios listening to the Italy-Argentina World Cup football match. Inside, like so many American officials unhappily missing a World Series, the political leaders gathered round a brocade-covered table in the Giulio Romano Room, so named for the artist who painted its frescoes. They did not even break for dinner-an uncommon sacrifice for Italian politicians-but had it boxed in by Rosati...
...there was also a race. And even if its 60 entries included only two factory teams, the cherry red cars of Ferrari and the blood red cars of Alfa-Romeo, they provided more than a diverting show. Bouncing around the bumpy track's 5.2-mile course, with its twelve S's, hair-raising hairpin and assorted other curves, only 27 of the entries managed to finish. Mechanical mishaps took the biggest toll. Peter Revson, driving one of the four Alfa-Romeo Spyders, was eliminated for flourishing a finger obscenely at a track official who had chastised...
Because people spend so much time on the road in L.A., actual conversation has been partially replaced by bumper stickers, a way of communicating where you're at even while you're busy zipping down the passing lane with your Alfa wound up to 90 in third gear. You can witness whole bumper dialogues as you drive along: A Volkswagener croons in a feminine-hip voice, HAVE A NICE DAY, a Pontiac GTO with an Orange County dealer's sticker snorts back, p.o.w.s NEVER HAVE A NICE DAY, and a VW bus crammed with hippies answers...