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...sailing against the trial horse Vim, Gretel had shown an alarming tendency to heel over in heavy weather. Hoping to correct it, Sir Frank Packer, head of the syndicate behind the Australian contender, ordered her 90-ft. aluminum mast stepped forward 19 in. Her rigging had to be reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...
...same bracket with Don Budge. The son of a Queensland sheepherder, he is temperamental, easily thrown off stride by the bad breaks of a match. He lacks the cannonlike power of a Hoad or the dexterity of a Rosewall. Instead, he relies on craftiness and a unique ability to reset his wrist in mid-stroke-just before contact with the ball -that permits him to hit the ball flat, give it top spin, or impart a low-bouncing underspin. At Wimbledon last week, everything worked, and the ball acted as if it had corners. "No one could have lived with...
...Later, when I was in the Naval Air Corps, I saw how vain some of my shipmates were, always standing in front of the mirror combing their hair. I knew I was right." At Bayard's Studio, a man can get his hair cut and styled, shampooed and reset in about 45 minutes for $3.75. A permanent wave is $12 to $15; lash and eyebrow tint, $1.75; toupees run from $275 to $300. No shaves. No shines...
...diamonds, starting about 1890, has been the major hobble on art in jewelry: it dictated a rule that great stones should be placed in self-effacing settings. And because jewelry complements fashion, it is a fickle medium; when designs become outmoded, they are melted down and the stones reset. The result is that jewelry settings strive mainly to secure a gem to a finger, a wrist, a neck or an ear-no great challenge for the creative artist. Says Graham Hughes, art director and organizing secretary of the goldsmiths' show: "Wars, taxes, burglars and fashion have all conspired against...
Black Orpheus. The Greek legend, reset by Marcel Camus, a French director of The New Wave, comes to new life in the whirling bodies and pounding drums of Brazilian Negroes (TIME...