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...Richard H. Bertram. At 48, Florida's Dick Bertram is the Enzo Ferrari of powerboat racing. Like Ferrari, he sells luxury transportation to the well-heeled: his sleek, fiber-glass cruisers and sport fishermen cost anywhere from $9,000 to $75,000. Like Ferrari, he puts his reputation on the line on the racing circuit. And, like Ferrari, he almost always wins, in smooth water or rough...
Girls prowl the store like hunters on safari. They are identically sleek and skinny, lean and hungry, sloe-eyed, long-legged, small-hipped and jazzy. The jungle's name is Jax, and the girls know what they have come for: slacks that cling like oil to water...
...story - or was it? Holding Together. Hardly. Auto racing, like one-design yachting, has to be judged in terms of classes. When unequal cars race together on the same track, the first cars in do not always run off with the highest honors. The winning Ferraris were all prototypes, sleek, custom-made machines unlike any other cars in the world. Their victory had been conceded before the starting flag went down. But the other Ferraris, regular Grand Touring class models, were all struck down by Shelby's production-line Cobras...
...drawn to local characters. At Swarthmore he shows a translucent, almost Flemish portrait of Lester, which suggests that everyman's mind, like the dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...
...President of the U.S. had some electrifying news. With an air of quiet pride, he announced that the U.S. had secretly developed and successfully tested an aircraft that is far in advance of any ever seen before. Called the A11, the sleek, razor-winged interceptor flies higher and faster than any jet aircraft in history, promises a major breakthrough toward the futuristic world of flight at more than three times the speed of sound...