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...know the boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such U.S. 12-meters as Vim and Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from ¼ oz. per sq. yd. (for the spinnakers...
...intently to Susini's urgings that France needs a regime like Generalissimo Franco's in Spain, "only tougher." But Salan prefers the role of a mystical statesman, without making any public declaration on future policy. Salan operates in politics as he has in war?slowly, thoughtfully, his undoubted courage overlaid with caution...
...Massachusetts State House looms imposingly on Beacon Hill, but the government it houses resembles a colonial saltbox overlaid with the bureaucratic gingerbread of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Legislature has patched up the holes in the Constitution with occasional adhesive tape and bobby pins, but still refuses to recondition its whole structure. Since the political atmosphere on the Hill fosters hesitancy and inertia, only a Constitutional Convention can accomplish complete and intelligent reform of the State's government...
...spoke with the "husky, strangled voice of an upper-class Englishman, overlaid with a slight French accent," but he seldom had anything intellectually provocative to say. He read little but listened well, and got most of his ideas from what people said; yet he could speak authoritatively on horses and modern painting ("They are my only loves"), and sometimes surprised acquaintances with a display of caustic humor...
...before his death at 58. He was a philosopher in love with life, knowing and glorying in its evanescence. Once, to dramatize his feeling, he brought plain rice balls, wrapped in bamboo, to a flower-viewing party. After eating, he unrolled the bamboo wrapping upon the air. It was overlaid with gold leaf and painted by himself with mountains, birds and flowers. Casually, he tossed it into the stream...