Fifty years ago, Italy's design houses came up with a new angle. Forget freehand sketching-1972 would be the year of the protractor and ruler. Geometry teachers the world over rejoiced. Straight lines and acute intersections would show the progress of technology, leap away from the sensuous curves of the Sixties, and follow the sharp shapes of Marcello Gandini's ground-breaking Lamborghini Countach.
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