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...broad, cobblestone boulevard stands a cluster of trim modern apartments; at the other rises a glass-and-steel office building. In between lies "the Raper"-Europe's greatest and gaudiest fleshpot. The Reeperbahn of Hamburg's Sankt Pauli district strings more sin along its garishly lighted main drag and crooked side streets than ten Tijuanas or 16 Sohos...
...landing flaps at the rear edge of its wings. On the landing approach the flaps extend at an unusually sharp angle; sometimes they droop as much as 70°. Ordinary flaps would not work effectively at this angle; instead of giving more lift, they would merely create drag as the air passing over them burbled into turbulence...
Even with the new low withholding rates, it was a drag to raise five children on a Government salary of $21,000 a year, and so Mortimer Caplin, 47, finally resigned as Internal Revenue Commissioner, to return to practicing tax law in Washington...
...lessen drag, Eagle's new tab-shaped rudder is much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves. And for a jib, she will carry a huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained...
...their overweening desire for a heavy rich tone, thick reeds which hamper the development of virtuoso technique, and limit the player's freedom to phrase and vary his tone color. Obviously, Marx has no concern for playing with music, or for producting a smooth fat sound that he can drag along from note to note...