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Ever since he got his first catboat at eleven, Bostonian George O'Day, 40, has idolized sailboats. Regarded as one of the world's best downwind sailors, O'Day has handled almost every class of boat up to sleek 12-meter racers (he was the successful Weatherly's assistant skipper during last year's America's Cup races) and has a seasoned eye for grace ful lines and good design. About the only boats that O'Day doesn't like are those he makes himself...
...Avanti, already on the market); it will have the long hood and short rear-end characteristic of Britain's top-selling sports cars. Chevrolet expects to be in the showrooms late next spring with a rear-engine sports car built on the low-priced Corvair chassis with a sleek, sloping rear end (called a fastback in Detroit). By then, the aggressive Pontiac Division also intends to be out with a sports car of its own, named the Tempest GTO to ride on the prestige of the red-hot Italian Ferrari...
Second most popular island is Kauai, where Promoter Lyle Guslander's Coco Palms resort has become the bellwether for hotel operations on other islands. A low, sleek structure whose two long arms embrace a central lagoon, Coco Palms features local color. Bed-lamp shades are plastic copies of the feathered helmets kings once wore, bathroom basins consist of giant clamshells, and guests are called to meals by a leather-lunged islander blowing into a conch shell. Another Gus-lander development, the 22-month-old Hanalei Plantation, is situated on a promontory that was used...
Despite the rapid conquest of the air by jets, the world's airlines still need a small jetliner that can fly short hops profitably and operate from relatively short runways. To fill this need, British Aircraft Corp. developed the sleek BAC One-Eleven. Last week, after a year of indecision about its plans, Douglas Aircraft-whose DC-3 was the classic pre-jet short-range plane-announced that it will challenge the BAC ship with a new jetliner called...
...loyal fans of Soprano Renata Tebaldi had a hard time in recent years detecting the girlish silhouette of Mimi, say, or Leonora beneath their favorite's puffed-up form. Unlike her archrival Callas. who had the theatrical canniness to diet to a sleek whisper of her former self, Tebaldi apparently felt that it was sufficient for a soprano simply to trundle on stage and sing...