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...third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices), and towering construction cranes cut the skyline as sleek little skyscrapers of reinforced concrete and glass-all air-conditioned-rise story by story in the tropical...
...race day, as 15 sleek thoroughbreds paraded to the post, all eyes were on Ridan. His biggest competition, the early favorite Sir Gaylord, was out of the race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza...
...sleek item in the Sixth International Automobile Show, which opened in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, was turned back by its original purchaser because it gave him cold feet. A politician had ordered the grey, four-passenger Fiat 2300 coupe as last year's Christmas present to his wife, then canceled the order when he remembered the number of voters in Detroit...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted from a Paris hit, is tres tres sleek and sassy, with Julie Harris starring as a sleep-around maid...
...Pink." What blinded was a dark gold silk ball gown, encrusted to the knees with sparkling jewels and gold sequins. Farah's sleek black hair was piled high in a bun and held in place with a tiara blazing with diamonds and six lime-sized emeralds from the Iranian crown jewels. Other multi-carat emeralds and diamonds adorned a collar at her throat-and Jeweler Harry Winston, who had recently restyled her jewels especially for the party, described them as priceless. Jackie Kennedy, never one to be overshadowed, wore a chic Chez Ninon ball gown with a sleek white...