Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Feds boast more than 100 boats, but the fastest Coast Guard launch will travel only 28 m.p.h. The smugglers' sleek ocean racers, stripped of galleys and bunks for greater capacity, can do 50 m.p.h. fully loaded. "We are outmanned and outrun," says Coast Guard Commander John Ikens. "They have more money than...
West German films and novels today reflect that revulsion. To some, the sins of Auschwitz were never expiated; instead, a guilty society arose sleek and fat from defeat. Young men and women raised to take affluence for granted then violently recoiled from it and adopted the old anarchist's device of Propaganda by Deed...
Norelco ($110). American. Sleek, well built, performs all the functions of a Cuisinart, but is somewhat less durable. Best buy in its range...
...suggested as a cause the loss of a sense of relevance by today's youth, combined with a loss of authority by democratic governments since the early postwar years. Many West German observers believe that the 1968 generation of student protesters developed an idealistic hatred of their country's sleek materialism during the "economic miracle." For many, this was a first step toward radicalism. Beyond that, Frankfurt University Political Scientist Irving Fetscher argues, young middle class German rebels were "spoiled by the rapidity of change in a technological world and by a permissive education that created revolutionary impatience." Perhaps so?...
...century-old form, the America's Cup races ended with the rout of the foreign boat. Australia's 4-0 defeat in the best-of-seven series off Newport, R.I., brought the U.S. record since 1958, when the New York Yacht Club revived the cup series with sleek 12-meter sloops, to 28 wins and only two losses. Senior Editor Timothy Foote joined the spectator fleet for the last race. His report...