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...policy of allowing unrestricted immigration from the Commonwealth nations. He talked for some time, and when he was through it became clear that West Indians might be a problem, but not nearly so large a problem as Mr. Butler's proposal poses to a party actively engaged in a sleek refashioning of its popular image. The party organizers had hoped to use Brighton to present Conservatism to the electorate as viable politics for the years ahead, but more than anything else there ran through the proceedings the strains of inconsistency and puzzled indecision...
...creator is Sir William Lyons, 60, Jaguar's steel-willed chairman and managing director, who had a very special plan in mind. "We wanted," he explains, "to introduce the characteristics of a racing car into a passenger car." The racing car was Jaguar's famed, sleek-snouted Type D, which burned up Europe's tracks in the mid-'50s and won the grueling Le Mans 24-hour race three years in a row. From the Type D Sir William took road-clinging, independent rear-wheel suspension and a 265-h.p. engine that gives the Mark...
Jaguar's Type D racer has also spawned the sleek XKE sports car, of which auto buffs snapped up 2,200 in three days (roughly a full year's XKE production) after its introduction last April at the New York auto show. Its appeal: with a top speed of 150 m.p.h., it compares with Italy's hand-tooled Maseratis and Ferraris in both pace and grace (to use Jag's favorite ad words), yet at its U.S. price of about $6,000 costs only half as much. The Mark X at its basic British price...
soignée. adj. WELL-GROOMED. SLEEK. "she was soignée in a platinum mink stole...
Maria Beale Fletcher, 19, stage-struck daughter of a pair of professional dancers from Asheville, N.C.. found herself Miss America of 1962. A sleek (35-24-35) veteran of the Rockette line at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the hazel-eyed brunette so impressed bumptious Contest Judge (and Broadway Producer) David Merrick that before the Atlantic City finals, he planned to offer her the understudy lead in a forthcoming musical. Among the new Miss America's projected rounds: an overseas tour to display "an example of what our youth is like other than the juvenile delinquents...