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With no smokestacks, the Bainbridge looks more like a sleek runabout than a warship. Oil-fueled destroyers are soon coated above and below deck with grease and grime, but the Bainbridge is as clean as an operating room. White linen curtains flutter at the portholes in the wardroom. The cabin for visiting admirals is decorated with artificial yellow roses. Contemporary paintings, presents from the Bethlehem Steel Co.. which built the ship, hang in the ship's cabins and wardrooms...
...council fathers from the U.S., the most prosperous of the prelates, have the pick of available rooms. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman will stay, as he always does, at the Grand; 80 other bishops will stay at the Michelangelo, a sleek, air-conditioned hostelry within walking distance of St. Peter's. *A heretic takes exception to doctrine, a schismatic to discipline...
...model for Soviet womanhood. Feminine adornments were considered decadent. But under Nikita Khrushchev's rule, glamour has become one of the Marxist virtues; the party line has caught up with the hemline. At a Moscow fashion show this summer, 9,000 people a day enviously ogled the sleek styles that so far only the mannequins were wearing. The counters of GUM, Moscow's government department store, blossomed with gaudily colored brassieres. Costume jewelry and other Western fripperies adorned new shops along Gorky Street...
...first race was, predictably, a win for Weatherly by a margin that discouraged the Aussie challengers. In 15-20 knot winds off Newport the sleek American sloop romped to a 3:46 victory...
Weatherly, the sleek, blue-hulled United States defender last Tuesday handed the Australian challenger, Gretel, her fourth defeat in five races to keep the Cup in American hands...