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Cresting at 250,000 ft. over Nevada, the sleek black rocket-plane once again broke the world's altitude record, a habit the experts think the X-15 will continue until it doubles that height. The ten-minute ride to the fringes of space won Air Force Major Bob White, 38, the double distinction of becoming the world's highest and fastest (4,093 m.p.h.) winged-aircraft pilot. Upon landing on Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., White was debriefed with a frosty martini mixed by the flight surgeon&3151;another X-15 project habit...
...things are different in the rest of the world. Though the glamorous Orient Express, beloved by mystery writers, has been curtailed because of international red tape and visa requirements, the luxury train still belongs to the European way of life. Latest and best is West Germany's sleek new Rheingold Express, which clicks along at 100 m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation car for Rhineland castle watching, cocktail lounge and gourmet restaurant, plus telephone service...
...Denison, built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. for the U.S. Maritime Administration, is the U.S.'s first high speed hydrofoil ferryboat. But in Italy, hydrofoil ferries are old hat. Neapolitans scarcely spare a glance any more for the sleek, 140-passenger aliscafi (winged hulls) that skim out across the Bay of Naples four times a day on the tourist run to Capri 18 miles away...
Mitarai is capable of odd business gestures. Last year, after dominating Japan's high-priced camera market (85% of sales), Canon moved into the medium-priced field with the sleek 35-mm. Canonet (U.S. retail price: $112). So good was the Canonet that competitors petitioned the Japanese government to bar it from the market on the ground that it would drive them out of business. The government refused, but Mitarai generously volunteered to hold up the introduction of the Canonet for five months until other firms could improve their own models. Even so, the Canonet has become Japan...
...aluminum mast unstepped, her Honduras mahogany hull swathed in protective padding, Australia's sleek, 12-meter challenger for the America's Cup was ready last week for her voyage to the U.S.-as deck cargo aboard the freighter City of Sydney. For two months, Gretel (pronounced Great-ul) had been testing herself against her American trial horse, Vim, and stories about her speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic...