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...sandals, she pads across to where she will be photographed against a white paper drop. She grins at an onlooker. She can look a 6-ft. 2-in. man in the eye. The red flower in her hair looks like a pennant at the masthead of a racing sloop. Ellen Merlo has said that the one overriding reason for Tiegs' appeal is that her sexiness is not forbidding to men or offensive to women. This seems logical; how could anyone take offense at a sailboat...
...master hairdresser, approaches, and Tiegs bends her knees, lowering her head so that he can give it a last swipe with his brush. A small, wren-colored woman, a stylist, darts up, makes an odd little ducking gesture that may be obeisance, and slips a bracelet on the racing sloop's left arm. Photographer Seltzer, a big, bald, hard-looking man, lies on his belly, chest soothed by a pillow, and begins to talk in the style parodied in Blow-Up: "Good, good, wonderful, great...
...season of beaches and barbecues, the doldrums for much of the nation-but not for Jimmy Carter's sloop of state. The Administration was being buffeted by crosscurrents of criticism on a variety of domestic and foreign issues. None of the President's problems-Bert Lance, the Panama Canal treaty, relations with China, the Middle East, the economy, the thorny question of racial quotas-are near the magnitude of a real crisis. But the problems are numerous enough to raise doubts about the Carter Administration's mastery of the issues that confront it. They have also created...
April 24--Third in Sloop Shrew Trophy regatta on the Charles...
Harvard's vaunted sailing fleets sprang a leak last weekend, as the men puffed to mediocre finishes in a pair of away meets, while the women fought a losing battle against the wind and rain to finish third in the Sloop Shrew Trophy regatta in Cambridge...