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Still, speed is one thing at Le Mans - and survival is another. The Ford Mark IVs were obviously faster, but could they outlast the Ferraris? Gambling that they could not, Ferrari Team Manager Franco Lini ordered his drivers to hold back, bide their time, and wait for misfortune to hit the Mark IVs. The gamble almost paid off. One Mark IV went off the course, got stuck in sand and never got out; another lost its rear hood, had to pit for repairs and dropped far behind. Then there was Mario Andretti. Running second in the No. 3 Mark...
Averaging only 105.703 m.p.h., New Zealand's Chris Amon took first place in his P4, followed by two other Ferraris and two hardy little German Porsches. The sole surviving Ford Co. entry finished seventh. Ferrari Manager Franco Lini dashed off to telephone the news to Maestro Enzo in Maranello. Reported Lini: "Ferrari is pleased...
...theological disputation at Turin University, where he won a law scholarship. Later he went into Socialist journalism. In 1921, he was among the men who led the left wing's secession from the Socialist Party and founded the separate Communist Party of Italy. Five years later, when Musso lini's police were beginning to make things hot, Togliatti fled to France...
...party were her seven-year-old daughter Edda (named for Edda Musso lini Ciano), a nursemaid, a German lieu tenant colonel and his orderly. To officers of the U.S. 19th Infantry Division, said a New York Times dispatch, the lieutenant colonel presented an order from an un named SHAEF major general, requesting that Frau Goring be given all assistance...
...Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved to the U. S. He married Mrs. Madalyn Nichols Taylor of New Orleans, settled down in Manhattan, where he did some radio broadcasting, and in Connecticut, where he tinkered with a Diesel motor of his own design. When he thought about Mussolini...