Word: miglia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the pianists who open doors with their elbows, Michelangeli is not one to pamper his "strangler's hands." He is an avid skier, mountain climber and high-speed sports-car enthusiast (as a prewar professional driver, he once won the Mille Miglia). As a result he cannot find an insurance company that will insure his hands. Or his future. Even his manager, marveling at Michelangeli's "sudden return to the world," openly wonders: "How long will it continue?" Hopefully until next January, when the reluctant master is scheduled to perform in the U.S. for the first time...
...Paolo, 32, a sales executive with the retail outlets; Pietro, 25. a law student, and Giannino, 34, who has been handed the prize assignment-running the textile company. As a youth, handsome, soft-spoken Giannino became an Italian national hero by twice (in 1950 and 1953) winning the Mille Miglia road race. Says Giannino: "Racing was a good preparation for the future...
...inch cars on the HO-scale track that raced a scale Mille Miglia, safe-driving obstacle course and drag strip for the "Grand National" championship were the products of the Aurora Plastics Corp., which joined with the Ford Motor Co. in organizing an elimination contest enlisting 1,000,000 "drivers"' in 48 states (the state champions ranged in age from eight, for California, to 37 for New York). But Aurora's Model Motoring sets, ranging from $20 to $50 (individual cars are $1.98 or $2.49), are only one of 13 different lines of miniature electric racing cars that...
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...
...week Mille Miglia of celluloid was about equally divided between films that used sex for art and films that used sex for sensation. Items...