Word: autostrada
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...most Italians, the Easter holiday this year was more frustrating than festive. Alitalia was struck, which meant that both planes and plans had to be canceled. In a protest for higher wages, refinery workers sporadically cut delivery of the premium gasoline that most Italian cars require, thereby limiting autostrada excursions. (Enterprising urchins in Naples took advantage of the situation by selling mixtures of regular gas and cheap red wine as premium...
...people in Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot were virtually cut off from the rest of the ''country. Barricades and wrecked tracks forced trains from the north to halt two hours short of Reggio. The Highway of the Sun, Italy's main north-south autostrada, was sealed off. With the port blocked, hundreds of trucks and freight cars stood idle on the other side of the Straits of Messina...
...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...