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...finished third in the Sherry Cup, an international competition held at Sotogrande. Sotogrande is a breathtaking course hewn out of the cork trees that grow in the lush valley of the Guadiare River. Two continents can be seen from the course as the misty silhouette of the Rock of Gibralter looms 22 miles out into the Mediterranean...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Ole, Captain Ajax | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

Several well-known designers have climbed aboard the hayride, turning out country-look garb at double and triple the prices of the catalogue merchandise. Ralph Lauren, 37, has made the rough-hewn look the backbone of his collection. His Harris tweed hacking jacket is a highly styled-and highly priced ($256)-version of a riding jacket sold for $79.50 by the equestrian outfitter, Miller's of New York. Louis Vuitton has whipped up a knapsack ($275) blanketed with the familiar L.V.s. Patti Cappalli, 37, has turned out a little mink-lined lumber jacket ($450) and Alice Elaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Call of the Wilderness | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Zelve, Cappadocia, Turkey, July 23--I'm dangling my feet out of a window about a hundred feet above the ground. It opens into an enormous hole that might properly be called a cave, except that it is man-made--hewn out of the cliff-side by some eighth century hermits. My window probably served the original owners as a door: notches have been cut in the rock face leading up to it. But I came in the back way, and wandered through dark and clammy passageways that occasionally opened into dark and clammy rooms, until I saw a patch...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Valley of the Fairy Kingdom | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

...Norton, 31, the opponent, is child of the black middle class, a star in two dreadful movies and the possessor of a body that Irving Rudd, a boxing publicist, called "mythologically hewn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Doing It Just One More Time | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...royal yacht Britannia at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. In Independence Hall she presented Britain's Bicentennial gift to the U.S.: a six-ton bell cast in London's Whitechapel Foundry. which made the original Liberty Bell in 1752. Philadelphia's rough-hewn Mayor Frank Rizzo was nearly overcome by it all. "A little boy from South Philadelphia having lunch and dinner with the Queen," he gushed. "Only in America can that happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Glittering Courtesy Call | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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