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...open-road races through northern and central Italy. He cracked up soon and often, but he kept coming back. In 1940, when he was 21, he graduated to autos. Small, stock Fiats were his first mounts; for his first big races in the Mille Miglia and at Palermo, he managed to get hold of a Ferrari. Motor trouble forced him out each time...
Hungry hoodlums, homesick for the U.S.A., rallied around from Palermo, Messina, Genoa and even the island of Elba. "I wish I had been left in an American jail," one explained. "At least there I could eat and sleep at Government expense...
...busily giving her Sunbeam sedan a last-minute going-over to get it ready for the grinding, 2,000-mile Monte Carlo Rally.* With her were 43 other teams from six countries, driving cars from 17 different factories. Fanned out across Europe-in Glasgow, Monte Carlo, Lisbon, Athens, Oslo, Palermo, Stockholm-nearly 300 other teams waited for the starter's flag...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...
...Challenge. Some months ago, the Embassy awarded a $7,528,000 contract to the Piaggio yards in Palermo for a NATO destroyer escort. Later, when a new plantwide election was held, the Reds argued that "the bosses think the workers are such imbeciles that they can be blackmailed. They don't know that the workers have sufficient intelligence to understand that orders must be assigned to plants and yards which have necessary equipment and qualified personnel ... in spite of American millionaires." Result: the Reds increased the number of Communist shop stewards at Piaggio from four to seven...