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...reigning Agnellis are as dissimilar in style as an 850 Sport Spider and a 128 family sedan. The 51-year-old Gianni, jet-setting celebrity and voluble charmer, is characteristically energetic and impatient. By contrast, Umberto so detests partygoing that friends say his marriage to Antonella Piaggio, whose family makes Vespa motor scooters, broke up three years ago partly because of her active social life. To relax, Umberto spends weekends sailing off the Sardinian coast, where he keeps a home, often with Girl Friend Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, a first cousin of Gianni's wife...
Before dawn one morning last week, Irish police tailed a Ford sedan for several blocks through the rainy streets of Dublin before instructing it to halt. Then, as they let their coats swing open to reveal their sidearms, the plainclothesmen ordered the tall, burly driver from his car. At Dublin's central police station, they demanded that he explain his connection with the illegal Irish Republican Army. Sean MacStiofáin, 44, chief of staff of the I.R.A.'s militant "Provisional" wing, replied, "Tada" (Nothing to say). The dramatic arrest marked the strongest action yet taken...
...Glad bags and Colgate-Palmolive's Baggies. Bisodol commercials trumpet its stomach-soothing effectiveness over Turns and Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying the possibility of naming Cadillac. Says K. & E. Chairman Stanley Tannenbaum of name naming...
Driving to work one winter morning in his 45th year, Barney Cashman, as securely strapped into his black four-door sedan as into his whole middle-class existence, pulls up at a toll booth He looks yearningly across at a ravishing beauty in the car next to him. "So many pretty girls," he soliloquizes. "When I was a kid, there were maybe six or seven pretty girls. Today they're all pretty...
...sunny morning two months ago, a black sedan arrived at the "truce village" of Panmunjom on the boundary between South and North Korea. Its passengers included Hu Rak Lee, 48, director of South Korea's powerful Central Intelligence Agency, an aide and two bodyguards. At Panmunjom, Lee and his party transferred to a North Korean car, crossed the border and drove to the nearby village of Kaesong. There they boarded a helicopter for Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Lee was the first high-ranking South Korean official to visit Pyongyang since the armistice ending the fighting of the Korean...