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...higher status in Italy than anywhere else. The undisputed heir to the tradition of the late Pinin Farina and Nuncio Bertone is a prodigious creator named Giorgietto Giugiaro, the son of a church gilder. Giugiaro went to work for Fiat at 17 and designed his first complete car, the Alfa 2000 Sprint, when he was only 21. At 36, the head of his own firm, Ital Design, Giugiaro has more than a score of auto designs in his gallery of achievements, including the new generation of post-bug Volkswagens, Ghia's classic De Tomaso Mangusta, the Fiat 850 Spider...
...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...
...detail. If he draws a 1955 Peugeot 403 or the old Geneva Airport, everything is exactly right. Occasionally he breaks out into a full-page picture recreating such things as a complete Persian miniature version of a 15th century battle with the Turks, or the havoc wreaked by an Alfa Romeo slaloming through a European square on market...
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...