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ROME DAILY A:'.\lERICAN
Tu'esday, September 28, 1954
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Windshield '
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"hurricane pa b ,.
rl'\v appeared ca
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,hen srat,ed north again. with the
last case be:n5 noted one week ag:J
at Modena, on the $OUthem edge
of the~ R.i.:.:.eJ:.. val.~y.
In its walret'Re myst13,-y
as left
sources of stunned motorists, many
cut by gJa.ss, des<::ribing the pheno­
menon to puzzle .i auLhoritie:,.
They were driv.11g along, sober
folk with nothing unusual vis:ble
bs!ore tl:lem, when .m:!jenly-cra.sh !
The "expl:.Jt:lerl" w:ndshLeJj splint­
e,s into a thous!lnd p:eces, crashing
into their laps and cften cutting
tbe han::!s im:l face.
Mo~e Hum
once a serious crackup has been
narrowly averted.
What causes it?
No one seems
to k11ow.
Italians call it '·cancer
of tbe win::shield."
In its course
across Italy, the "disease," which
first appeared t.o strike
·• can
1 otorists in nort
1a
sprea
rem au omc i es to 1nclu e
streetcars and houses.
It has o.:::urre::I by ::lay an:l night
and seems unrelaten to weather,
speed or age of vehicle.
Following it3 June appearance
in the Italian Piedmont, where it
struck four cars iti an area oi a
hunjred miles, the epideni1c mov­
ed east and south, hit Rome a week
later. The phenomenon then mov­
ed north, blasting the front glass
of a big red tourist bus in Genoa.
Latest case, still further north,
was the literal explosioo of f;he
windshield glass of D.r. Martino Fa­
rlnettl at Modena.
Dr. Farlnetti,
en route ' to a clinic, was cu£ fn the
face and m:imentarlly l:ist control
of the car. Attemping to brake to
a stop, he spun around and neat'ly
went over in a dit~h.