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...screeched off the road and tumbled 630 feet down into a ravine. Both Estrada and Co-Driver Miguel González died in a Oaxaca hospital that afternoon. Next day Carlos Panini, wealthy Italian-born founder of Mexico's first scheduled airline (Aerovias Panini), was killed when his Alfa Romeo skidded into a field and turned over...
Death on the Road. At midnight, in a drenching rainstorm, the little Fiats were sent off first, then the larger cars-mostly powerful Italian Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and British Jaguars. The man to beat, the experts thought, was four-time winner Clemente Biondetti, a hard-bitten roadwise pro who drove a big Jaguar. No one gave Gianni, Vittorio, Paolo and Umberto Marzotto much of a chance...
Italian Communists sent a 5,000,000-lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...
...Grand Palais, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Simca and Ford (of France) trotted out their latest models to compete for attention with exhibits from U.S., British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about $17,000 in France); the white-upholstered Talbot-Lago. Saoutchik had orders...
...immediate issue in Hungary was Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi's order nationalizing the country's 4,813 Catholic schools. In 1944, Mindszenty had been jailed for four months for his opposition to Naziism; now he was risking himself again. Through the Hungarian countryside he drove his own Alfa-Romeo at a dangerous pace from one mass meeting to another. After Communist police cut the power supply for his sound truck, he got his own portable generator. The government warned Hungarians not to listen, but the cardinal drew crowds of as many...