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...KAISER-ALFA ROMEO DEAL will link the two automakers in Argentina, where Industrias Kaiser now turns out Jeeps and cars similar to the 1955 Manhattan. Next fall Kaiser will start assembling small cars with its own four-cylinder engines and sporty, four-door Alfa Romeo bodies made by Kaiser in Argentina, with dies from Italy...
...Italian immigrant to Argentina, sometime bus mechanic, Fangio was 28 before he attracted international attention by finishing fifth in the Gran Premio Extraordinario Argentino. Not until he was 38 did a manufacturer (Alfa Romeo) sign him up to race full time. In his second year under contract (1951), the phlegmatic Fangio won the world driving championship. He won it again four times in the next six years, driving for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner...
...reading your interesting article, I came across your picture captioned "Alfa Helicopter Pilot on Pursuit Exercise." This picture appears to have been taken through the nose station of a P2V-7F Neptune patrol plane. Having flown the latter plane, I am positive your picture was taken through what we call our "Poker parlor...
Thach swung into characteristically blurring motion, gathering his components and his men, laying out his experimental course over a 100-by-100-mile section of the Atlantic ("My large outdoor schoolhouse"). Alfa's job was "very simple," he explained. "There's 10,000 square miles of water out there, and ours is just a problem of conversion. We've got to convert all that to 350 feet by 35 feet-the space that a submarine occupies out of all that area...
Skipper Thach works his people hard. "We pay overtime," says he wryly, "after 24 hours a day." Task Group Alfa fuels its destroyers during mealtimes to save precious hours. He has cut his 10,000-mile outdoor classroom into four segments, runs off exercises in each one-as many as a dozen in a day and night. With the completion of each exercise, he folds his 160-lb., 6-ft. frame over the chart tables, carefully puts on his reading glasses for a close, almost wordless examination of the results. And the exercises continue unceasingly, each one posing new problems...