Word: aurelia
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...announced winner was Louis Chiron, 54, a Monte Carlo citizen who sped his 115.h.p. Lancia Aurelia over the final 2.14 miles of twisting city streets at 45 m.p.h. Chiron's secret of success over his Rally route: "Careful timing, eating, planning and determination . . . I munched dried fruit-grapes, apricots, figs-as well as chocolate and sugar all the way. I never quit eating . . . Others lost weight and time...
Near Rome, Orson Welles, who had just bought a new Lancia Aurelia for $4,629, had a rattling good shakeup, but no serious injury, when the car crashed into a tree after a blowout. Condition of the car: "completely ruined...
...book, The Kings of the Road, he says flatly that any man who wouldn't rather pay out of pocket for an "Aurelia" model Italian Lancia than receive a Cadillac as a gift "just doesn't know how to live...
...Chaillot sector of Paris there lives a woman who calls herself the Countess Aurelia, but who is known to her many friends as "the madwoman." This is not necessarily derogatory. It is difficult to tell how old the Countess might be because she dresses in the style of the 1880's and is rather out of touch with the times--a fear she manages by living in a dream-world and reading every morning a 1903 newspaper...
...island of Sardinia, black-capped, white-trousered unemployed farm laborers moved onto the rocky hills which had been untouched by the plow for generations. Near Cerveteri, along the rolling hills of Via Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...