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Under the friendly prodding of expert sailor "Corny" Shields, Chris-Craft, which has confined itself exclusively to "stinkpots," is considering going into the sailboat business. The leading U.S. naval architects, Sparkman & Stephens, have designed for Chris-Craft a 34-ft. fiberglass motor sailer. The new sailboat would give Chris-Craft an entry into a market even larger than the cabin cruiser trade...
...look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...
Most of the owners refused even to negotiate the issue of foreign-flag ships. For U.S. shipowners the overriding economic fact of life is that the U.S. able seaman earns wages and overtime averaging $612 a month-three to four times as much as a foreign sailor. Largely because of this wage gulf, the number of U.S.-flag private merchant ships has slipped from 1,050 to 941 in the past decade. Meantime, U.S. owners have registered 454 ships in foreign countries, including 259 in tax-free Panama, Liberia and Honduras. Not only can these "flag of convenience" ships...
...there was any man at Oakland Hills with the brand of golf needed to take the Monster's measure, it was Gene Littler, 30, a sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...
...pilfered, and he knew far better than his contemporaries how to weld the melody of an opera to its drama. Orontea, a typical Cesti product, is the story of a skittish Egyptian queen who spurns all suitors because in her "breast love dwells not." But when a handsome shipwrecked sailor emerges from the sea, she becomes so unnerved that she 1) falls in love with him, 2) slashes to pieces a portrait he has painted of her. and 3) decides to marry him. Only then does she learn that he is a prince...