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...times when she is going to get scratched, banged and, in general, look quite shoddy. But it is at this time that she is probably doing her best work in assisting some other vessel. The overall material condition of the ARS is every bit as good as any sleek destroyer afloat...
...Standard-Triumph's sleek Triumph GT6 is a $3,460 version of the small, 105 m.p.h. Spitfire, with a special hardtop and a six-cylinder engine that can reach a top speed of 107 m.p.h...
Like a well-trained dolphin, the miniature experimental submarine maneuvered docilely around the waters of California's Santa Barbara yacht basin. No propellers, no jets were visible along its sleek, 10-ft.-long hull, yet the sub was obviously moving under its own power, gliding silently at about 2 m.p.h. 3 ft. under the surface. There was not a motor on board, but the odd little boat was being propelled by the same electrical phenomenon that causes rotors in electric motors to turn: electromagnetic force...
...Greying, distinguished Norman Norell, 66, is today the dean of U.S. designers. As an apprentice, he designed costumes for Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Today his Manhattan collections still retain much of the sleek, stark, flamboyant yet functional modernity that was characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and remain equally timely in the 1960s. Norell pioneered culottes and fitted jackets with pleated skirts several seasons ago, showed the now universal pants suit in 1964. His most famous dress is undoubtedly the basic, columnar, $3,000 sequined full-length sheath that he has been making, with minor variations, since...
Never before has tactical air power been used so intensively to help fight a ground war. As a result, American pilots in Viet Nam must possess a versatility unknown to their World War II counterparts. They man a varied flock of craft ranging from the sleek, 1,500-mile-an-hour F-4C Phantom jets to windmilling Skyraiders. Their work is peculiarly dangerous, involving multiple threats from sky and ground; more than 300 American planes have been shot down. It takes guts and guile...