Word: autostrada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great brown-and-beige Rolls was tooling along at 60 m.p.h. down the autostrada between Rome and Florence when it hit an icy patch on the road. The car slammed into a lane divider, then caromed across the highway and pounded into a wall overlooking a 200-ft. ravine. Just before the crash, the front-seat passenger, Film Director Franco Zeffirelli, flung out his arm in a gallant gesture toward the driver. "My one thought was to save her face," he said later. As it turned out, Driver Gina Lollobrigida picked up no more than a bruise on the left...
ITALY yearly improves the Autostrada linking up the main tourist cities north and south of Rome. The big question mark has been Florence, and the news is good: Florence is going to be more fascinating than ever. Of 31,555 art shops in the city, nearly 8,000 were ruined by last fall's floods; yet all but 150 will be back in business this summer. The city has not only recovered but has actually turned the flood damage into a high-powered attraction. Visitors can now take a guided tour of the Boboli Gardens, central "hospital" for damaged...
...danger has always been an important thing-to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could drive without cracking up." This summer he found an all too tangible answer: his $11,000 Ferrari, whining along at a reported 110 m.p.h. on a limit-free Italian autostrada, crunched into a tiny Fiat, killing a Florentine businessman. Although the actor's driving record has been safe at any speed, an Italian magistrate ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence of recklessness to justify an indictment for manslaughter. Penalty for conviction: one to five years, though...
...battle for control of British Aluminium, Warburg fought most of the British banking Establishment-and won. His S. G. Warburg & Co. also plotted most of the press takeovers by both Lord Thomson and Cecil King, helped Chrysler buy into Rootes Motors, arranged financing for Italy's autostrada, managed the first U.S. corporate bond issue in Europe, for Socony Mobil last year...
...developed nation, the south stood in harsh contrast to Italy's industrialized north. Now all the old ideas about the south may have to be revised. Last week, with flying banners and ecclesiastical pomp, the Italians opened the last stretch of the 468-mile Milan-to-Salerno Autostrada del Sole, the first modern highway link between north and south...