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...achieved a "major breakthrough" in hull design. Built at a cost of $500,000, the Dame has a radical rudder (broad at the top, tapering sharply at the foot) and a 92-ft. aluminum mast that is built in sections for extra flexibility-to keep the mainsail flatter while beating to windward. She also has Jock Sturrock at the helm. In unofficial competition with Gretel, Dame Pattie has been spectacular. Last week Skipper Sturrock spotted Gretel a full minute, was ahead by 6 min. 45 sec. after 15 miles...
...himself with publicity. Typically, he believes that many of the problems of the school system are rooted in its image and could be corrected without any fundamental changes in structure. One basic difficulty, he insists, is that Boston newspapers are geared to a suburban readership. Their aim is to flatter the suburbanite, and all too often this flattery becomes a destructive comparison of the city with the suburb; criticism of the city becomes a way of justifying the suburbanite's flight from Boston...
...general, our readers around the world vary widely in age, occupation, status and interests. While not trying to flatter them or ourselves, we think of them as having a high level of intelligence, knowledge and taste. Among the newer readers, there are some fairly clear patterns. A full 80% of our U.S. circulation growth in recent years has been in the urbs, suburbs and exurbs of the East, the industrial Midwest and the Pacific Southwest. These new readers tend to be managerial and professional people, relatively affluent, and getting a little younger. A decade ago, more than half of TIME...
...preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety," and then subtly sank the needle: "The English, I just now learn, flatter themselves they have already divided us. I hope this little misunderstanding will therefore be kept secret, and that they will find themselves totally mistaken...
They are known in the trade as "gift books," and they assuredly qualify: usually big and expensive, they make handsome presents that flatter the recipient with their implied suggestion that someone cares a lot-and carry no obligation to do more than leaf through them once. But the tag is unnecessarily depreciative, for the best of the gift books can be exhilarating visual as well as literary experiences: passports to fine art the viewer might never otherwise see, inaccessible realms he might never otherwise visit. Among the best of the recent gift books...