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...moralists thundered against the "private luxury" of fashion. But inexorably the tides of fashion have rolled on their way, now exposing a pleasant vista with a plunging neckline, then snapping it shut; now swelling bottoms into the massive promontories of the bustle, then strapping them down into the sleek foothills of the girdle, in an age-old and tireless coquetry with the male...
Breeders Tried. The British officers brought the Afghans home to England just after the turn of the century, but the sleek, silken-haired dandies did not catch the fancy of U.S. breeders until the 1930's. Once they left the deserts and the rough hill country of India, the Afghans took quickly to soft kennel life. Shirkhan, says Part-Owner and Handler Sunny Shay, is an incomparable house pet. "Afghans don't shed, they are quiet and phlegmatic, they don't fight with other dogs. Despite their size [average 27 in. at the shoulder...
...Groton, Conn. last week, two sleek, new submarines for the Peruvian navy slid down the ways in a dramatic double launching, and a watching crowd cheered. In Lima, a sour official communiqué suggested that the new government would have been just as happy if the submarines had never been ordered...
...airplane aloft that morning was a sleek, four-engined DC-7B, newly completed at the Douglas plant in Santa Monica and destined for delivery to Continental Air Lines. The $2,000,000 airliner had been lifted skyward on its maiden flight by Test Pilot William Carr, 36, for a trial turn over the Pacific at 10,000 ft., then back in a climbing arch over the valley to 25,000 ft. The four-man crew logged a routine test. Twice Santa Monica's Clover Field received position reports radioed by Copilot Archie Twitchell, 51, whose 34 years of flying...
...first George had placed his bombs on Con Edison property, but too many of them went unfound and unexploded. So in recent months he took to driving into Manhattan in the sleek, $4,000 imported Daimler thoughtfully provided him by his sisters. He planted the bombs in such public places as Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building and New York Public Library, followed them up with carefully worded, literate letters to the newspapers, cryptically signed "F.P." (for "Fair Play," he explained). George had planted 47 bombs; scores of crackpots sent the cops on fruitless chases for imaginary missiles...