Word: literalness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monster at Cremona. The new 300-h.p., 2.5-liter car develops 30 h.p. more than its smaller stablemate, ought to grind out an extra 6 m.p.h. on the fast tracks at Rheims and Monza. It is something of a throwback to the days when old Alfieri startled the road-racing fancy with his Sedici Cilindri a 16-cylinder job that set a 152.9 m.p.h. record at Cremona in 1929. But the Sedici Cilindri was a bastard car, with a power plant made of a pair of eight-cylinder engines, the two crankshafts coupled in a single gear...
When the long grind finally ended, a pair of Scotsmen who had entered their own 3.5-liter Jaguar, rode out of nowhere to take the grand prize. Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson covered a total of 2,521 miles at an average 104.3 m.p.h. In second place: Britain's Peter Collins and Stirling Moss in an Aston-Martin. Only 14 out of 49 starters finished, but race officials heaved a great sigh of relief. One death and a moderate assortment of bruises, broken bones and wrecked cars added up to what oldtimers have come to consider a "normal" race...
Torn by the denigration-of-Stalin issue, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists lost more heavily than expected-several hundred thousand votes. But what Togliatti lost, his Socialist ally Pietro Nenni picked up. "It is like having a liter of wine and two bottles," said one former Communist cynically. "You may pour wine from one bottle to another, or back and forth as you like, but you still have the liter." One Italian voter in three was still voting the Communist line...
Curves at 100. Through his intuition and endless inspection, Speed King Ferrari prevails as an individual against mass-production giants. His cars are high-strung, low-slung machines with the delicate balance of a watch and the stamina of a bull rhino. The 3.5-liter Ferrari that won the Mille Miglia is powered with a huge twelve-cylinder engine, the only V12 currently in production, which can push it smoothly along the straightaway at close to 190 m.p.h. The weight of engine and chassis is kept low in relation to the horsepower (about 6 Ibs. per h.p.). Thus the cars...
Fangio's fine performance, in addition to capturing $3,000 first prize money, earned third place for "index of performance," a complicated calculation by which achievement is measured against theoretically possible performance. First and second: two 1.5-liter German-made Porsches...