Word: smeralda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would you build one of fiber glass unless you wanted to cheat?" he asked at a press conference. Added Blackaller: "My engineers have told me for six years that you can't build a fiber-glass boat light and strong enough . . . under the rules." The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda of Sardinia, organizer of the challenger series, has not responded to the war of words. As a matter of normal procedure, however, it will remeasure and check all semifinalists before racing resumes after Christmas...
...West Germany runway models, native and foreign, do not often pose in the studios, and it is they who, as mannequins traditionally are supposed to do, spend their nights in discos and their long weekends at Gstaad or the Costa Smeralda. The American photo models, at least in a widely sworn-to stereotype, are highly professional and somewhat alarming creatures who arrive punctually, work hard and project such Teutonic brown qualities as hair in youth, curlers vivacity, and radiance and good humor. They fit in well with the businesslike atmosphere of the German studios. Off-camera, they baffle local playboys...