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...watched her performance intently. The Alfa Romeos came next. The first came into the turn too quickly and hit the brakes. The right rear wheel locked and the Alfa blasted through the hay bales. No injury and no damage resulted. Vag watched the second Alfa, a white one, repeat the process...
John H. Atherton '53, a third year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was driving his Alfa Romeo toward Harvard Square on Mt. Auburn St., when he collided with an Oldsmobile coming north on Plympton. His head was dashed through the windshield, and he suffered lacerations of the scalp...
...brings on snide cracks that the American car is the symbol of American culture: a "dollar grin for all the world." But the real experts-Europe's stylists-are quick to defend the U.S. car. Italy's great Pinin Farina, who designed the beautiful Lancia Aurelia and Alfa Romeo, calls American cars the most comfortable in the world. For the U.S., with its enormous distances and comparatively cheap gasoline, the big. powerful U.S. cars are well designed. The driver who hopes to slip into 50-m.p.h. expressway traffic needs plenty of power just as he needs...
Science in the Defiles. SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With...
...iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron and half its steel, enjoys a monopoly or near monopoly of rail, sea and air transport, and competes with private industry in the manufacture of scores of products ranging from chocolates to Alfa Romeo cars...