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...suit of prison clothes. "This gabardine I am wearing is newly cleaned and pressed," he explained, "and I don't want to get it dirty. I want to leave here like a gentleman.'' One of Montagna's first visitors was a handsome blonde driving a sleek Alfa Romeo, who was promptly turned away by the prison guards when she tried to leave him a bouquet of red carnations to decorate his cell...
Simca's sleek little Aronde car is considered the hottest thing on the French market today. Priced at $1,870, it is a strong competitor in popularity to the $995 Renault Baby. Simca's passenger-car output in the first six months of 1954 totaled 40,655. Net profit last year was $1,570,000. Simca's exports have climbed from 4.77% of all French cars sold abroad in 1949 to 18% last year...
...still on, the Air Force had quietly dropped the finish flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...most exciting thing about Boeing's spectacular course last week was a brand-new airplane that was rolled out for its preflight tests-a big, sleek, new job painted a rich yellow and chocolate brown, with sharply swept-back wings and four huge jet engines slung underneath...
...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...