Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fear & Faith. His passion for sports, Portago says, made him "a dismal failure" at schools in England, France, Spain and Hollywood. No game or adventure proved capable of holding his interest steadily until he discovered car-racing three years ago. Once he climbed into the cramped cockpit of a Grand Prix racer he knew exactly where he was heading...
...afraid, so I have an advantage by going into sports where others might be scared. Adventure is like religion. And in religion you have to have faith. I have faith in myself." Alfonso is confident that in two years he will be the racing-car champion of the world...
Other good drivers are usually also excellent mechanics. Not Portago. Before one of his first races (at Sebring in 1954), he and his co-driver took their car's gear box apart. When they got it together again, there were 54 nuts and bolts left over. Practical knowledge of their machine's innards helps other drivers get the most out of their engines. Alfonso keeps a steady foot on the throttle, a sure hand on the wheel and leaves the rest to luck. In a race like this week's test at Sebring, so much...
...York six years ago. Says Kovarsky: "We had been cut off from the art world for ten years. I felt the need of something refreshing. New York cooks very fast, and it cooks nicely. It has a good smell. What was yesterday is gone. Yesterday's car isn't enough. Today demands more. I will take a lot from here...
...unloading the automotive division, he can probably count on help from Sol A. Dann, a Detroit attorney who leads a dissident stockholders' group, has been in touch with Wolfson and says their programs for the company are similar. But Romney believes fervently in the future of the small car, thinks his Rambler and its British-manufactured Metropolitan (sales of both are up so far this year) will be the salvation of the ailing company. Said Romney: "I would be opposed to discontinuance of our automotive activities...