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Hood had no formal training as a naval architect, but he had plenty of ideas about boats picked up on salt water when he set out to design Robin in 1955. Patterning her after the successful, wide-beamed Finisterre (designed by Olin Stephens), Hood made Robin wide and shallow so that much of her displacement was up near the waterline. He willingly accepted a penalty under the intricate-formula racing rules for hoisting an outsize sail. Then Hood gave Robin an extralong, 6 ft. daggerlike centerboard "with some shape...
...Hood expected, her wide beam and deep centerboard gives Robin solid stability while beating to windward, and her shallow underbody makes her fast off the wind. So effective is Hood's centerboard that there was talk around the fleet last week that other racers may soon be copying his design as well as buying his sails. That would still leave Robin with one indispensable feature: Ted Hood himself at the tiller...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn in a gloriously photographed but religiously shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun who finds that she can keep only two of her vows-obedience is her undoing...
Last Train from Gun Hill (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a slick saddle-soap opera of TV's "adult'' school, with enough shallow currents of sociology, Greek tragedy and child psychology to titillate horse-opera highbrows...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn in a gloriously photographed but religiously shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun who finds that she can keep only two of her vows-obedience is her undoing...