NEW YORK (AP) —
Sunbathing in the bulf to
get that sexy all-over tan
is unsuitable in most
places. Now, two sun
worshippers are
promoting a new
swimsuit — the Unsult —
that lets the sun through
without being see-
through. -

Held yp to the right
light,, the , matgrial | is
semi-ransparent. But

distracting print,and open
(but not too apen) fabric

tanning rays. through.
The suit, the brain-
storm of nutritionist Han
Buhringer, is taking some
fashion circles by storm.
Bloomingdale's has
reported record sales
since the suit appeared in
its stores last .week,

a bundle. Others are

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It’s not just a novelty
item, apparently. |
Bubringer and ‘his part-
ner, Ann Turkel, say ‘it
has surpassed ‘all their
expectations.

“All of a sudden you

have peaple ripping it off “

the racks; your heart
beat starts to rise,”
Buhringer said. in an
interview Tuesday,
HIDES FLAWS

What [5 the Unsuit’s
appeal? Turkel, an ac-
tress-model and ex-wife
of actor Richard Harris,
is quick with an answer.

~ “One gets a suntan —

because a suntan hides a
lot of flaws — cellulite,
stretch marks. I think this
is really going tohelpa lot
of women look better and
feel better,” she said.
The couple, both 32, are
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Los Angeles, where their
company, Unsuit Part-

“ners, has - iis: headquar-

ters...

Today they will be in
. Bloomingdale's flagship
store in Manhattan. The

last time they were there, ~

March 12, the st@ke sold
200 of the suits, the best

‘one-day sales on a single

item in the history of the
swimwear _ department.

““T ‘asked one of the |

customers. why they were
‘sald = Bob
Lowenstein, Blooming-
dale's divisional mer-

-chandise manager for

swimwear, “She told me
she loved. nude © sun-
‘bathing but her husband
got very Upset about it

- and this was their com-|

promise,” -

Bloomingdale's. initial

order was 2,000 suits for

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more. “It's probably tye
to three times bigger than

_ any item we've ever

sold,” Lowenstein sald.

* EXPANDS MARKET:

‘ Neiman-Marcug — ord-

"ered several thousand

“suits, and Buhringer said
about 750 department and
specialty stores have also
placed orders. There are
plans to market the suit
abroad and to use the
fabric for golf and tents
shirts.

The Unsult- comes in
maillot and bikin! styles
for women. There fs’ also
a men’s brief. Patterns
include * leopard, liger,
flag, red flower and blue
patterns ‘—-
designed to distor? the eye
just to make sure it
doesn’t see through ‘the
material, Ties at the side
and back allow for eany

adjustments, Co yte

“Women's suits retall for '
up to $40, about average,
while the men ‘s 5 sult ' goes
for $36. :

Buhtinger’ has appiled :

for a patent on the fabric, -

a cotton which, according

to - teats by. the U.S." |

Testing Co. . division in.
Las Angeles, allows 27 to
45 per cent of the light;
pass through.

“About 45 per cent of the
ultravioltt tanning ays
penetrate the suit, said
Buhringer, saying that
means it has a sun
Protection factor of six, a
medium rating. .

Wearers are advised to
use caution, especially if
it Is their first time with
the Unsuit, and to use a
sun screen on the exposed
parts of their bodies so

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Carvers. turn driftwood into art

LEAF RAPIDS, Man.
(CF) — Philip Colomb sits
hunched over his workshop
bench carving precise,
stately features. into an
eagle he has fashioned out
of driftwood.

“Yesterday that was just
a plece of stick," says
Archie Nabess, general
manager of Mistik Wood-
craft Ltd,, the government:
funded brainchild of Nabess
and the Manitoba Metis
Federation.

’ “IF he works steady he
can finish one of those in
three days,"

Colomb is one of six
craftsmen who work full-
time producing driftwood
carvings and wood sculp-
tures for the firm. Four
other employees design and
build furniture.
~ From a workshop and
instruction centre in
- Nabess’ basement, the firm
has grown into one of the
most promising businesses

in a one-industry town
where the future is never

certain.
Nabess, a self-taught
carver who began

producing wood art in the
1960s, sald he never thought
it would become the full-
time endeavour it is taday.
NATURAL FORMATIONS

“T used to walk along the
shores and just pick up
driftwood," says Nabesa,
who also does oil paintings,
Mustrations and cartoons.
“A lot of pieces already had
the form of a bird or an
animal in them.”

The many ‘nearby lakes
and rivers form a gold mine
of driftwood that is stock-
piled outside the firm to be
turned into birds, beavers,
wolverines, maftens or
other animals that abound
In the virtually untouched
surrounding ‘habitat.

Nabess has taken a crew
of young people from Leaf
Rapids and various

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Manitoba. “reserves and
turned them into a tear of
artists whose work, under
his direction, is starting to
-widespread

Colomb; born on the
Pukatawagan reserve, hit
this town about 970
Wdlometres. north of Win-
nipeg a few years ago in
search of a job. He worked

_for a while at the local

copper mine, but spent his
spare time carving.

“T never had any proper
tools then,"’ says Colomb,.
23. ““T just used an axe and a
knife," .

Nabess took Colomb
wider his. wing last
January. Within six months,
Nabess says, -his student
was producing saleable
items. “Some people have
to apprentice all their lives

-‘to get that good.”

Floyd Ballantyne, also
from Pukatawagan, said he
had no experience in car-

rotting

ving before meeting Nabess
after being laid off from his
job at the mine about a year
ago.

Today, | he turng “out

: professional-looking ‘pleces

at a rapid pace, with owls
his specialty.

Nabess recruited carvers
from EBrochet, nearby South
Indian Lake, Pukatawagan
and other regions. Some are
single women with families
to support who might not
have found employment
elsewhere.

The company now works
out of a modern two-storey
building that was completed
in December, allowing the

. artists to do their work in

brightly-lit areas and to
display the art proudly.
Nabess says the carvings
are selling well and the firm
is becoming -more well-
known as it displays its
wares across Manitoba.
Particular interest shown
by American, buyers ‘has

away

‘prompted Nabess ‘to. hire -
another person to promote —
in Minnesota, -
‘Colorado and the: Dakotas.

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” fashioned. pinball machine:

complete with’ : flashing
lights and clanging sounda,
have in’ common with a
modern home “computer?

‘Absolutely’ nothing. Butin
& strange instance of the
new reviving ‘the - old,

“several, companies. are

selling programs that make
computer screens and their
attached keyboards imitate
those mechanical monstera
of the past.

Pinball Construction Set
is the name. of one such
program which has
recelved a lot of attention.
The game has a suggested
list price of $60 and is
available on floppy disc for
Apple ~ and:
Atari compulers. -

Like the other games, this
one lets you knock a white
blip around a pinball-type
Jayout displayed on. the
screen. Two buttonson a joy
stick — an accessory. that
plugs into the computer —,
activate the flippers, The

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gates, rollovers and targets.

On the left side-is the-
actual ‘pinball layout, or

board. Using’ the joystick,
any of the, parts can be

brought over. to the board |

and placed where desired:
Any part can also be

removed from the board. .-

. ¥ou can experiment, with
the design as you go along,
sending balls through thé

layout until it’ meets your .

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If the. —_‘creaftive
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Sound ‘effects can also be
altered, as well aa the colors
of the parts and all aspects -
of how points are scored.

. Theoretically, You. need
never get.-bored,’ because
once a particular layout is
mastered It can be made.
more difficult. | ;

Computer pinball is oddly
different : from. the real
thing, A white blip darting
back’ and , forth «across :a
screen is far removed from
a ‘bouncing, steel ball ‘that.
erashes into solld obstacles.
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HALIFAX (CP) — An abandoned yawlonce used by Adolf
Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis for Baltic cruises sits

slowly rotting in the city’s Northwest Arm.

Pickle, once an elegant 17-metre racer, was purchased In
1979 by an Ontario man who intended to restore her to her
original opulence. But Norman Gowland has never
returned and time is running out for the neglected, wooden
boat.

“She is rotten from the waterline up and we have nat
heard from the owner for at least three years,” Doug

* Rosborough, a boat designer and marina owner who has
been caring for Pickle, said in an interview.

Rosborough said Gowland paid $28,000 for Pickle in 1979,
saying he planned to restore her,

“He must have been talking in the royal sense because
nobody, including him, has been on her since.”

Rosboraugh said he has been unable to locate Rowland
and Pickle has run up storage bills of $5,000, The boat, built
in 1936, requires periodic pumping out, has been pillaged by
vandals and is turning into an eyesore.

“T'd like to find him (Rowland), but failing that I'll have
to seize her for wharfage and auction her off in the way the

law provides. ”
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She was taken over by the German Ministry of Marine’
when the war broke out and kept in port in Kiel. The racer
was obtalned by the British after the war as part of war-
reparations.

The British transferred Pickle to the Royal Canadian —
Navy and she arrived in Canada in 1955. Pickle served the
navy for years as sail trainer before being turned over to".
Crown Assets for disposal in 1975.

Rosborough said Pickle leaks like a sieve above the i
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“There is a lot of history in this boat, " Rosborough said. :
“E think she Is salvageable,”

The job would not be a cheap ane, however, Rosborough .
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Custom cheating no big deal

OTTAWA (CP) — Most Canadians returning from trips
outside the country belleve at least half their fellow
travellers are customs cheats but that it’s no big deal.

That’s one of the conclusions of a $48, survey of almost
2,000 people returning to Canada through airports and at
border crossings, conducted for Revenue Canada customs
and excise division last: year.

“HalE of the travellers sampled think that there isa
degree of smuggling going on and that only half or tess than
half of Canadians declare everything," said Market Facts
of Canada which conducted the survey.

People will smuggle if they have little chance of getting
caught, but they are discouraged by fines, most travellers
said.

Omitting the declaration of small purchases is not seen as
a serious offence by air travellers, while land travellers are
evenly divided on the issue.

And of the 960 air travellers surveyed, more than three-
quarters agreed “knowing their luggage might be searched
by customs keeps people honest."

Surprise was expressed that 12 per cent of air travellers
backed away from responding to the slatement: “‘It is
difficult to smuggle: things into Canada.”

That was a higher portion than average for other
questions, lhe summary said.

The answer. of “don’t know” was not an option in the
survey but was recorded when given, sald Market Facts,

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‘Francois Filion, spokesman for Revenue Canada customs
and excise division, agreed thal answerlng the question
with either a yes or no could be seen as an admission that
some attempt at smuggling had been made,

In other words, how would you know if you hadn't tried?

While the main job of customs officials is to collect duty
and taxes, travellers saw that as the least important of
three functions.

Searching for prohibited goods auch as itlegal drugs or
pornography was seen as the most important function, and
the detection of illega) immigrants the second-most im-
portant of the three options offered.

Reaction to customs officials, who are viewed by
travellers as policemen, is generally positive.

"They are seen as thorough, somewhal suspicious and.
strict, but courteous, aympathetic and fair.”’

The survey also found that 43 per cent of air lraveliers
agreed at least in part that customs inspections caused
unnecessary delays,

As a result, customs now is implementing a system

allowing air travellers to write out weir aeciaratlons ahead
of time to speed up the process.

The new system has come close to halving the average:

time a person spends with customs officers, Filion said.
There are some delays for which customs is blamed but is ,

“nol at fault, he sald. For exampte, if two flights come in at
the same time because ane has been delayed, there may not | “5

be enough customs officials to quickly Handle the overload.
And customs {3 often blamed for baggage delays whieh

aren't its fault either, he said,

Canada lures
U.S. tourists

NEW YORK (CP) --
Canada is trying a new tack
to lure American tourists
north, singing the praises of
its cities in an attempt to
reverse the — $2.1-billion
tourism deficit it ran up last
year with the United States.

While still pushing the
attractions of the country’s
great outdoors, a $7.5-.
million television —_ad-
vertising © campaign
beginning next month will
promote = Canada’s

cosmopolitan cities as well,. .

Tourism Minister David
Snith said Tuesday.

About 11 million
Amerieans visited Canada
at least overnight last year,
an Increase over 1982 but a
full 15 per cent less than did

in 1972, The second.

commercials, which will
run in prime spots in cities
within a day's drive of
Canada, are an attempt to
reverse the trend, Smith

told a group.of American.

‘travel writers.

Although the Canadian

tourism industry hopes to .

benefit from the large.
number of anniversary
¢elebrations taking place
across the country this year

— Quebec City’s 450th,
New .

Toronto’s. 150th,
Brunswick and Ontario's
200th .— it faces strong.
competition fom the
World's . Fair New .

Orleans and the Lee, Angeles
‘ Olympic Games. ,

“Bame people of course
will go io New Orleans and
L.A.,” Smith said.

“We're not greedy. We _
Just want our slice of the a

action, "
’ Barlier in the day, Smith .

was host at a noon-hour

display of Canadian figure
skating on the outdoor rink
of Rockefeller Centre in

inid-town Manhattan,
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