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Gordy Price padded the margin five minutes before the period ended, with the Huskies again down a man. His long skimmer flipped cleanly under Northeastern's screened goalie, and Harvard took a 3-1 lead...
...scoops up Louis Fischer's Life of Lenin, Camus' The Plague, George Orwell's Essays, and four Ian Flemings for insurance, the vacationer is torn between dreams of intellectual grandeur and the gnawing suspicion that he will only finish the Flemings. Once again, the seasonal Shakespeare skimmer might observe, vaulting ambition hath o'erleaped itself...
...military observers on the shore, though, the scene was less a picture of the future than a promise of a new and better landing craft for today's troubles. The Bell Aerosystem's Hydro-skimmer was built for the Navy, but it is only one of a score of air-cushion vehicles now being developed for military and commercial usage by such old-hand defense contractors as Republic Aviation, Grumman Aircraft, General Dynamics and Martin-Marietta...
...aluminum Hydroskimmer moves on a thin cushion of air; it gets its lift from the powerful blast of the four turbine-driven fans in the ship's hull. Once the skimmer is balanced on its air cushion, the two propellers in the stern roar into action. Starting from a spot 25 miles off the Erie beach, the Hydro-skimmer landed its marines in less than 30 minutes, traversed the last 600 yds. in less than 40 sec., minimizing exposure to potential enemy fire, maximizing the element of surprise. In addition, the marines were landed on the beach itself instead...
...encourage the prospective shopper. ADELE BRAGAR (1684 Mass. Ave.) says, "To Hell with the fashion magazines! I buy what I like." She likes the tailored and simple--"You'll find no lace or ruffles here." Again this spring she's showing shifts along with the newer looking A-line skimmers and fitted dresses. Her hottest number: the essential linen skimmer ($15) in black, blue and putty, too. Mrs. Bragar does not "get on the band wagon with the Marimekko jazz" and subscribes to a delightful sartorial inverse snobbism...