Word: portofino
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...scenes vary from Portofino to Harlem to the Savoy, but the '20s are coming to a close, the Depression is imminent, and no matter how far the wealthy wander and caper, their journeys are bound to end in sorrow...
...sunny morning last week, 2,890 miles, 35 hr. 53 min., and one $250 traffic ticket away from East Side Manhattan's Red Ball Garage, Rick Cline and Jack May parked their pockmarked white Ferrari Dino in front of the Portofino Inn in Southern California's Redondo Beach. Having shaved one minute from the previous transcontinental record, the partners became undisputed holders of the 1975 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash...
First to arrive at the Portofino last week was a '73 Dodge Challenger driven by 1971 Winner Yates and fellow New Yorker Steve Behr. The Dodge was the first car to leave Manhattan, got lost south of Flagstaff, Ariz., and placed third with an elapsed time of 38 hr. 3 min. Blaming the loss on an ill-chosen shortcut, Yates complained: "I think we hit every state coming across except Alaska and Utah. And that road looked so good...
...police radar and Citizen Band radio sets on which the drivers got warning of highway patrol cars ("Smokey Bears") from friendly truckers ahead. "The cops are really starting to get tricky," said Wes Dawn, 31, a professional racing driver from Los Angeles, who wheeled his Mercedes 4505L into the Portofino lot five minutes after the winner. "In Ohio the police all have C.B. radios in their cars-when you ask if the road ahead is clear, they'll give you the all-clear. Ohio is wall-to-wall Smokey Bears...
...forest space is theoretically protected by archaic laws. Technically, speculators are prevented from building in woods. The solution: forest fires. Nearly 200,000 acres of forest were burned last summer, and Italia Nostra estimates that at least one of every ten fires-especially on valuable land around resorts like Portofino -was set by landowners or prospective buyers. So blatant is the ruin of "protected" space that the Mayor of Pescasseroli, a town in the Abruzzi National Park, issued permits for speculative hotels and villas that involved the felling of 120,000 trees...