Word: lorenzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of him; swerving off the road to avoid a crash, Hill damaged his gearbox beyond repair. When the checkered flag finally fluttered, only 13 cars, out of 49 starters, were still running. And the winner was a rear-engined Ferrari, driven by Italy's Ludovico Scarfiotti and Lorenzo Bandini, who covered 2,832 miles at an average speed of 117.9 m.p.h. The next five cars were all Ferraris...
...than a year ago, he armed himself with letters from the President and Vice President of the U.S., and talked the Mexican Tourist Bureau into agreeing to lend the head to Houston. All he knew about finding the head was that it lay somewhere on the island of San Lorenzo be tween two rivers, about 40 miles from the town of Minatitlan in southern Mexico. The Mexican government lent Sweeney a helicopter, and with it he flew from village to village scrutinizing the terrain for any big heads, and occasionally landing to inquire if the villagers had seen...
...rainy season came and then Christmas; it was not until after Easter this year that Sweeney got back to Mexico. Sure enough, the Ministry of Marine had almost finished the road, clearing away giant trees and building bridges over streams. But now the people in nearby San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan were growing restless. In return for losing their head, they demanded a new schoolhouse. The governor of the state wholeheartedly agreed to give them...
...FALLS (158 pp.)-Lorenzo Mazzettl-McKay...
...official lost-art detective, Rodolfo Siviero, flew to Pasadena and verified the find. After showings in Washington and New York, the Pollaiuolos were sent back to the Uffizi. German police, tracing wartime cronies of the Meindls, recovered five more looted paintings (including a Bronzino Deposizione and a Lorenzo di Credi) from an old man in Munich who turned them over on a police promise to keep his name secret...