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Lambretta's Italian competitor, the Vespa, has also been hurt by the auto. But Vespas will continue to be produced at home, leaving the Italian people at least a whisper of a past...
Died. Enrico Piaggio, 60, Italy's Vespa king, a wartime aircraft manufacturer who revolutionized European road travel with his 1946 development of a low-cost motor scooter that now sells in more than 120 countries; of peritonitis; in Varramista, Italy...
John Shaw did some conventional flying between his Hong Kong base and Bangkok, where the going was less conventional. There, his means of locomotion included a motor samlor (popular Thai vehicle made up of a pedicab body hitched to a Vespa scooter), a motorized sampan and a Bangkok banker's air-conditioned Jaguar...
...elderly maiden aunt? Here is romantic pish-tush, complete with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations, drownings and tears. Wiser...
...throw, knives and forks to brandish, chased each other up the beaches and down the streets under a hail of rocks and crockery. On the promenade, herds of noisy Rocker motorcycles roared incessantly; buzzing them in hand-to-handlebar combat were enough Mod motor scooters to hold mass Vespa services...