The Life And Death Of A Spanish Grandee
May, 1958
The Life and Death of a Spanish GrandeePortago in retrospect, twelve months laterA year ago, on the 12th of May, a Ferrari automobile running in Italy's Mille Miglia race crashed in the village of Guidizzolo near Brescia. The car had been making something over 150 miles an hour and it killed nine of the spectators lining the long straight road. It killed the co-driver, Edmund Nelson, and it killed the driver, a Spaniard named Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, Carvajal y Are, 13th Conde de la Me...