Word: brescia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vain Gualtierotti tried to discover who had sent the boots. He was still puzzling three months later when he was promoted to captain and transferred to another regiment in Brescia, 275 miles away, There, for the first time, he pulled on his shiny new boots and marched off to report to his commanding officer. The interview was brief. Gualtierotti sprang to attention, clicked his heels, and was blown to bits...
...watching crowds along the 1,000-mile course (Brescia to Rome and back) were almost as intense as the drivers. But wealthy Papa Marzotto (Count of Valdagno Castelvecchio), who had supplied the boys with the best in snappy motor cars, was so mad at his venturesome sons that he refused to go out to see the start of the race...
...Paolo, 19, who had been forced to quit when his brakes failed, begged Gianni, with his nine-minute lead, to play it safe. So, over the last 145 miles, Gianni held his Ferrari down to a conservative 105 m.p.h. on the straightaways until he saw the finish light in Brescia. Then he poured...