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...Bloomingdale's, Benders and Bergdorf s. But it was a markedly different Yves. Said he: "I have found a new form of simplicity." Turning his back on Cossacks and gypsies, he drew his inspiration from "the streets of New York." One YSL eyecatcher: a tricolored cotton shirt worn with sailcloth pants. His ready-to-wear clothes were modern, young and?with one or two see-through and derriere-baring exceptions?eminently wearable on Manhattan's avenues. That?if not his prices ($500 or more) ?will doubtless bring Yves new acceptance as a guru turned pragmatist...
...King Khalid, the conference demonstrated that there is no shortage of ideas for using icebergs to slake the world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to find a 100 million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would cost around $100 million, according to estimates...
...Olin Stephens, the master 12-meter designer, has been gaining on Courageous (also a Stephens design) as the matches have progressed. Its San Diego-based skipper, Lowell North, 47, suffered from lack of experience in Atlantic waters during the June matchups. An expensive -and unsuccessful-experiment with new sailcloth cost North additional precious tune. Poor crew coordination and tactical blunders-committed as North turned over the helm to scamper about the deck fiddling with fittings and adjusting the rigging and sails-worsened matters...
...southwest corner of the Utah State Prison, sat Gary Mark Gilmore, 36, freshly shaven and wearing a black T shirt, crumpled white trousers and red, white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 deer rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
What is seven feet wide, made out of painted sailcloth, and looks like a giant hamburger with a detachable pickle perched on top? The pop-art answer is a well-done Giant Hamburger by Claes Oldenburg. When the Art Gallery of Toronto recently bought one for some $4,000, students at Toronto's Central Technical High School looked at it with a hungry eye. What a hamburger needs, they reasoned, is ketchup. Someone sent out for a bottle of Heinz; in less time than it takes to shake a slurp out of the bottle, students and teachers had built...