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...looks is part of the Gould effect. It is not so much that he seems so ordinary as that he seems so little like a star. His clothes, whether custom-made suits or crumpled fatigues, never quite fit; his hair could use a trim; and he can raise a heavy beard (as he is now doing) in a matter of days. In this era of the inescapable nude scene, Gould's ordinary and not especially well-cared-for proportions come as a blessed relief. For the average American male on a Saturday-night movie date, it was once a recurring...
Perpetual Night. Most Finns have accepted the need for neutralism, but internally they have built a society that is thoroughly Western in look as well as outlook. Its architecture is trim and modern, and so are its leggy, miniskirted blondes. With the Gross National Product at $8.8 billion and the economy growing at 6-7% a year, unemployment stands at a manageable 2%. Eastern Europe accounts for barely one-sixth of its trade, Western Europe close to two-thirds. The ratio is even more lopsided when it comes to tourism. Of 1,300,000 visitors last year, the overwhelming majority...
Almost everyone has felt the economic pinch. The Boeing Co. has laid off 22,000 workers in the Puget Sound area since January, plans to trim its pay roll from a 1968 high of 101,000 to 45.000 by the end of this year. One of those affected by the cutback, Engineer George Wheeler, recently sold his $28,-000 house in Seattle, and plans to move into a $40-a-month apartment in his native state of Wyoming where he hopes to teach. Electronics firms have laid off 5% of their personnel in Massachusetts. William Kukers, 52, lost...
Building a better 12-meter racing yacht for the America's Cup is a bit like trying to reshape Raquel Welch. A naval architect can trim her here, pad her there, but what counts in the end is how well all the parts move together. Last week, after years of designing and testing, the three U.S. contenders for the 1970 America's Cup showed their shapes in public in a five-day series of trial races. Snub-nosed and broad-beamed, none would win a yachting beauty contest. Yet once they were under sail, all their parts seemed...
...Intrepid in 1967. His latest design is a beamy, white-and-gold sloop that stretches 63 ft. in length. Broad in her forward sections and slim in the stern, she has been dubbed "the tadpole." Valiant's keel is smaller than the old Intrepid's, her trim tab larger. A Stephens innovation for 12-meters, the trim tab on the aft end of the keel helps to reduce drift to leeward and can be used as an auxiliary rudder in tight turns. Valiant's reverse transom rolls down more smoothly toward the waterline, reducing excess weight...