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...wild, his putting sour. He was disgusted and threatened, like any Sunday duffer, to abandon the game forever. Montgomery used to be a golfer, but he injured a vertebra in a plane accident after the war, and has given up the sport. He followed the foursome in an electric scooter...
...want to live for a while under this beautiful blue sky where my fiancée was born . . . and I want to relax in the sun." Chirped Josane: "I'm very happy. My dream has come true." With that, the couple hopped on Marlon's rented motor scooter and chugged off toward the beautiful sky. Next day, though, Marlon was tired of "persecution" from newsmen. He kissed his girl goodbye and sped off. Only he, and presumably Josane, knew his destination...
Runabout. At Regensburg, Germany, Willy Messerschmitt, who designed Germany's famed fighter planes in World War II, began turning out a three-wheeled, 342 pound automobile on a motor scooter chassis. Only 9½ ft. long, 48 in. wide and 47 in. high, it can do 40 m.p.h., run 75 miles on a gallon of gas. The Kleinwagen has two seats in tandem, no space for baggage. Price: about...
Married. Christine Patiño y Borbón, 20, Bolivian tin heiress ($150 million); and Prince Marc de Beauvau Craon, 31, descendant of the 12th century Anjous of France, now a director of a French motor-scooter factory; in a sumptuous ceremony at the Church of St. Louis des Invalides witnessed by the Latin American diplomatic corps and most of Europe's titled, uncrowned heads; in Paris...
...money to expand, Piaggio borrowed $1,080,000 from the Export-Import Bank and ECA. Piaggio organized Vespa clubs, races and contests, thinks that "the best way to fight Communism in this country is to give each worker a scooter, so he will have his own transportation, have something valuable of his own, and have a stake in the principle of private property." Taking their cue from this, many industrialists have bought Vespas on a reduced-price fleet plan, sold them to employees by paycheck deductions. In Piaggio's own plant, 60% of the 3,500 workers who once...