Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of 58 starters, the Lancias got off fast. Three of them, driven by three of the greatest names in racing-Italy's Alberto Ascari, Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and Italy's Pierro Taruffi-were leading 1-2-3 after two hours. The fourth Lancia, driven by Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, was well back in the pack. The Cunningham Special, driven by Briggs himself, was fifth...
...though it was the Lancias' day, after all. Taruffi's No. 38 was well out in front, nine full laps (46 miles) ahead of the next car. In second place, but hopelessly behind, was Briggs Cunningham's third entry, a little (1.452 cc.) Italian Osca alternately driven during the day by Britain's Stirling Moss and Connecticut's Bill Lloyd. But with only an hour to go, Taruffi's Lancia ground to a halt. In the Cunningham pits, where the Osca driver could see it when he flashed by, they held up a sign...
...their guns at 84-year-old Stamatia Moschou and her family, and ordered them to march toward Albania. Along with 300 of their fellow villagers, the Moschou family−grandmother Stamatia, her daughter Alexandra, her grandsons Christopher, 15, and Evanghelos, I, her granddaughters Dimitra, Maria and Spiridoula−were driven across the mountains for five days and most of four nights. For close to a year they were herded from camp to camp, between Albania and Yugoslavia. At last they were thrown into the hold of a Russian freighter. "Like so many animals." said Alexandra Moschou...
...grips and caught the overnight express to Stockholm. He got away just in time. The next day, Inspector Asbjoern Brhyn of the Norwegian security police announced that Meshchevitinov had been Russian contact for the biggest spy ring ever unearthed in Norway. For the past two years, Meshchevitinov had been driven in a limousine to isolated and regular rendezvous near the capital. There he had been met by a tall, pale man who supplied the Russian with a complete file of Norway's secret military publication, the license numbers of its secret-police cars, lists of military equipment arriving from...
...first models will probably cost about $4,000.000. v. $1,500,000 for the propeller-driven Boeing Stratocruiser. But Boeing figures the airlines will more than make up the difference through faster schedules and easier maintenance. The four Pratt & Whitney J-5U jets have fewer moving parts to get out of whack, are hung under the wings in pods for easy repairs. Pilots will also have things easier. The 707's flight deck has only 179 switches, levers, panel instruments and warning lights, v. 404 on the Stratocruiser...