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...Aqua Sports' 8-ft, flat-bottomed "Skim'R Fish," which draws only two inches of water, is driven by an air propeller, uses only one gallon of gas every three hours. Price...
...across greatly expanded territories while their sample cases ride in the luggage compartment as air freight rather than as expensive excess baggage. In the era of the seven-league sell, salesmen also have to be more alert. Sales managers jet around, too, and more often than not they skim off big and previously inaccessible customers for the home-office account. Then there are the more frequent visits from the top. "Any time the boss is in an area," says Earl C. Janson, manufacturing director of Beckman Instruments, "you're bound to increase the energy level...
Lord, for years now I've been watching all the vital juices drain out of Cary Grant's face. In this latest, it must surely be genuine leather, its deep bronze tone accenting the skim-milk white of Audrey Hepburn's cheekbones. Audrey, (whose back may be old from her front by the position of her face and the direction her shoes are pointing) will pursue Cary avidly. But he will grant her nary a peck--contending she's young enough to be his granddaughter--until the last hundred feet of film, when he'll propose...
...Your only job is to keep me awake," wrote Littlejohn. "How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx eyes over every other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just 'medieval cathedrals'-name nine. Think of a few specific examples of 'contemporary decadence,' like Natalie Wood...
...balanced by a "minus" (heavier weight). Built in the U.S., a 5.5-meter hull costs about $15,000; designer's fees, tank tests and sails boost the bill another $5,000 or more. Running before the wind, under an 800-sq.-ft. spinnaker, a 5.5-meter can skim along at 8 knots. But a sailor is well advised to take along a reliable Mae West and a strong Australian crawl. "You've got to be rugged," says one skipper...