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...every weekday at 7 a.m., Captain George Tsantes stepped into the back seat of a black Plymouth sedan outside his home in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens, for the 30-minute drive to his office in downtown Athens. This time, however, two men on a Vespa motor scooter were shadowing him. When the car stopped for a red light, the scooter zoomed alongside, and a gunman fired seven shots from a .45-cal. pistol, killing Tsantes instantly and fatally wounding his driver...
...Swedish designer then living in England. "She thought I was the crassest jerk she had ever met in her life," he says. But Haggam who had a littie of J.R.'s way with women even then, wisely let a little time pass, then asked her out-on his Vespa scooter. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last December in the company of their two children, Heidi, now 22, and Preston...
...Southern California, where sales have taken off like a supersonic skateboard since restrictive laws were eased last January, Vespa of America expects to sell 10,000 of its Italian-made Ciao two-wheelers in 1976. The oldest and cheapest moped is the Velosolex ($300), made by Motobecane of France, which has 500 U.S. dealers. More than 17,000 of the peppy, eye-catching Austrian-made Puch models have been sold since February...
...heavy-caliber pistols. Two more assassins, meanwhile, closed in on the blue official Fiat from which Coco had just emerged and pumped bullets into the police chauffeur. As the three victims lay dying, their killers vanished; two of them sped away down a labyrinth of alleys aboard a red Vespa motor scooter...
...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...