Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquaintance's long-moribund holding company, Terbita. But far from quitting public life, Reale got elected to the Italian Senate, and sent a young Italian named Norberto D'Allessandri to Zurich to take care of Terbita. D'Allessandri conducted affairs well, for he soon drove a Jaguar, took an expensive apartment. Yet when tax officials called, D'Allessandri could show them no books. Swiss police then raided his headquarters and found a notebook that disclosed a thriving business-not in antiques but in contraband smuggling of strategic goods to Eastern Europe...
...Cacti. As for the paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome. There was the wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least...
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the "haranguing hyena" or the "jeering jaguar" who achieved U.N. notoriety (1947-54) for his vitriolic attacks on the U.S., made his reputation as a prosecuting attorney in a theatrical series of purge trials of Bolshevik leaders in Moscow in 1936-38. Among the 54 men cross-examined by Vishinsky was one ex-Premier (Rykov), several Vice Premiers, two ex-chiefs of the Communist International, two ex-chiefs of the political police, nearly all the Soviet ambassadors in Europe and Asia, and all the members of Lenin's old Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile...
...needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with disc brakes. Both British teams were superbly organized in the pits. The Aston crew came complete with a practical physicist. Working...
...Jaguar & Monkey. The fact seems to be that Buffet found his style early and stuck with it. Good fortune, in return, stayed with Buffet. His canvases have soared from $50 to a top $10,000 for the largest oils, prices exceeded today only by such giants as Picasso, Braque and Rouault. He gets what he wants, whatever the cost. "You must feed your best horse plenty of oats if you want him to run fast," explained Gallery Owner Emanuel David...