Word: avanti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barreled down the test track at the company's South Bend plant one day last week in a sleek sports coupe, the likes of which no U.S. motorist has ever seen. Still shrouded in deep corporate secrecy, the new car was nonetheless already the talk of Detroit. Christened Avanti (Italian for "Forward"), it is finless, aerodynamically clean, and fast; it may well prove the most talked-of car turned out by any U.S. automaker since Ford Motor Co. introduced its first Thunderbird...
...Avanti is harddriving, flamboyant Sherwood Egbert's own brainchild. Ever since he took over faltering Studebaker-Packard in February 1961, Egbert has been painfully aware that the company badly needs some avanti pointing. Stuck with his predecessors' designs, Egbert saw Studebaker sell only a paltry 72,155 cars last year, managed to turn a $3.1 million loss into a $2.5 million profit only by selling off the company's plastics division to Monsanto...
...little spinach," "the dress was not exactly adapted to my physique." But at ballet's end, fans applauded through nine curtain calls, echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since she emerged from La Scala's ballet school. The daily Avanti found that Carla "has now fully arrived as a prima ballerina," and one critic noting that she is related to Verdi, observed: "No wonder she's so good; she drinks her morning espresso out of a cup that once was Verdi's." Few present would dispute the recent judgment...