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...ALFA KENT...
...Mans was one trophy the Porsche team dearly wanted to win -a feat they had never accomplished in 19 years of trying. The Ford GT-40s were not competing, but Ferrari, which handed Porsche its lone defeat this year at Sebring, Fla., was strongly represented, as were Alfa Romeo and Matra-Simca. As it happened, the cars might have made a better showing if they had been equipped with water wings instead of wheels...
Despite slender budgets, the new agencies produce eye-catching graphics and pungent copy. For example, a recent ad for Alfa Romeo by the French subsidiary of London's Colman, Prentis & Varley shows an ignition key stuck in a succulent red apple under the single word "Temptation." A breezy approach to sex and nudity is another hallmark of the New Wave. A lingerie ad in Elle, the French magazine, shows a couple in bed. "How was I?" she asks, slipping on her brassiere. "I love you," he replies, "and your Aubade...
Twenty years ago last week, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin turned 70, and the Soviet Union celebrated with a birthday party to end all birthday parties. Factory workers and farm hands promised to double, triple and quadruple their production norms as a present to their leader. The Italian Communists sent an Alfa Romeo sports car to the Kremlin, while the French party dispatched a chromium-plated racing bicycle. For the next eight months, Pravda's pages had room for little except birthday greetings...
About 200 police stood guard from a discreet distance. Pietro Guli, chief of the airport police, volunteered to go aboard. Eventually he re-emerged with Minichiello, who got into the back seat of Guli's Alfa Romeo, pointed his carbine and asked him in Neapolitan-accented Italian to drive away. Only three miles out of Rome, Minichiello ordered Guli from the car and then drove on a short distance before jumping out and heading across the fields. As some 800 police and four helicopters fanned out in search, Minichiello wandered through the vineyard-dotted countryside for more than four...