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...loves orchids and sables, pilots a fast Lancia. She writhes with impatience at official occasions when her position restrains her from doing the twist. Asked her opinion of France's then Premier Michel Debré after the Ivory Coast's Independence Day Ball, Thérèse allowed that "He's nice," but added that "he doesn't cha cha half as well" as another statesman at the party. Frenchmen, who call her the Ivory One and see her as the forerunner of a new, Europe-influenced African woman, delight in her exuberant, ultrafeminine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Reigning Beauties | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...shapely brunette in sausage-tight skirt stepped from the shadows to the curb as the small Fiat pulled up. "Good evening," she chirped to the leering youth behind the wheel. "Want to come with me?" Just then a cream-colored Lancia sedan eased alongside the Fiat, horn beeping and headlights flicking on and off. Two well-dressed, well-groomed girls smiled invitingly at the young man. "Hello there, want to go for a ride?'' crooned one, ignoring the streetwalker. "Then follow us." The Fiat roared after the Lancia, and the streetwalker retreated snarling to the shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Klaxon Girls | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...success has even begun to make a racing buff out of family's spokesman who has always been bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that the stables must be sold, but added the proviso that any of his heirs had first priority to buy. Karim himself is expected to be the first to be first in line with cash in his hand to preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: My Magic Is Science | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

When classes are over, Michelangeli, a powerful, strapping man whose large hands can dominate a steering wheel as readily as a keyboard, climbs into his Lancia and scorches the road to his sea side summer home. The pianist drove in the prewar Mille Miglia three times, won once, but now has quit racing, officially at least. (He boasts that he recently forced his Ferrari to 186 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fish in Deep Waters | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...evening last week Aly picked up Bettina in his new Lancia and headed for a country house in the Parisian suburb of Ville d'Avray, where they were expected for dinner. He waved the chauffeur to the rear and took the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INTERNATIONAL SET: Death on a Curve | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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