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...79th time, but the social season was off and running anyway, and the turnout of bluebloods, beauties and big shots was not what it used to be. And gleaming there in the Madison Square Garden lobby was the symbol of what had changed things, in the form of a sleek 1963-model automobile...
Still unanswered is what kind of government Sallal will give Yemen. San'a was thronged last week with hopeful advisers-sleek Egyptians, close-mouthed Russians, eager Yemenite exiles home for a new start. Electric light and water went on and off irregularly, and the royal palaces and guesthouses were jammed with sheiks squatting on the floor smoking water pipes, barefoot soldiers with tommy guns and kohl-eyed women who had daringly torn off their veils. Sheiks who spat qat on the carpets were reproved: ''Yemen is now a modern republic...
Among the curiosities of the Paris auto show was a pair of uncommonly low and sleek-looking Rolls-Royce limousines. Rolls spokesmen brushed off inquiries about the cars with a casual "special coachwork jobs, old boy." In fact, as Rolls will announce this week, the cars on display in Paris were new models-the first restyled Rolls-Royce autos in eight years...
...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...
...more than a decade, half the world's aircraft manufacturers have been struggling to develop a latter-day replacement for the traditional workhorse of the airways, Douglas Aircraft's 26-year-old DC-3. The planemaker that has come closest is Royal Netherlands Fokker Aircraft, whose sleek, twin-turboprop F-27 Friendship is now used by 36 airlines spanning all six continents...