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...addition to General Motors' Deep Ocean Work Boat (see opposite page), a sleek, manipulator-equipped craft that will support two men under water for 65 hours, some of the more advanced submersibles...
Before last year, for example, the northern town of Yurimaguas could not boast a single motor vehicle. Last week trucks and buses rattled over its freshly concreted streets, stony-faced Indian women raced about on sleek Honda motorbikes, and stores were stocked with everything from American canned tomatoes to cold German beer. On down the road at Tarapoto, the local airport now handles more freight than any other in Peru except Lima. Along with Ford and Chevrolet agencies, Tarapoto has also sprouted no-parking signs and one-way streets...
...Brava!" On the right pair of legs-ones that are young and slender -the boots can look devastatingly sexy. New York Fashion Plate Betsy Theodoracopulos, who wears her skirts four inches above the knee, says that she likes the high-rise boots because "they give my legs a sleek stocking look, and besides, without them I'd look like an overgrown teen-ager." On fatter legs, they often verge on the ludicrous. "Have you ever seen a bowlegged girl wearing them?" asks a Boston secretary. "They look like patent-leather parentheses...
...reaction is to tramp on the accelerator and do battle. But the prudent motorist respectfully pulls into the right lane when he sees a blue and white me dallion on a weasel-like grille barreling down upon him. And with good reason, for it is the emblem of the sleek five-seater produced by the Bayerische Motoren Werke. The BMW can outperform and overtake almost any standard German car on the autobahn. This year it proved that it could outdo its competitors in the market place as well: amidst a general economic slowdown and dwindling car sales in Germany, peppery...
...Owner Dougan had replaced Cunningham with 39-year-old Bill Ficker, a former Star Class world champion. Intrepid appeared to have the defender's job virtually locked up-and attention at Newport switched to the Australian challengers. If the America's Cup were awarded for beauty, the sleek green-and-gold Dame Pattie would win easily. If it were awarded for brass, Skipper Jock Sturrock would be well in the lead. He left no doubt that he expects to win come September. But if the cup is awarded for tactics, it is likely to wind...