Word: adidases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next to listening to someone describing his most recent operation, perhaps nothing is more boring than hearing a runner discuss 1) his daily mileage, 2) the differences between Adidas running shoes and Nikes, 3) the arcana of training diets and carbohydrate loading or 4) all of the above. Unless, of...
A male homosexual model, acclaimed as one of the world's best-dressed men, cites examples of fashion takeovers. "The first time I saw men wearing Adidas running shoes as part of casual wear was in the homosexual community on Fire Island several years ago. Now it has become a...
Vientiane, nevertheless, still retains some traces of its old insouciance. The antique shops along Rue Samsenthai, mostly owned by Vietnamese, are still open. One shopkeeper, fortunate enough to hold a French passport, said that she was preparing to leave Laos soon, since the government had announced plans to take over...
"Last night," says Tommy McDevitt '79, "I found him passed out on his bed at three in the morning with his Adidas on and a hammer clutched in his hand."
DIED. Adolf ("Adi") Dassler, 77, sports shoe mogul from whose name came the title of his brand-Adidas; of a heart attack; in Herzogenaurach, West Germany. Dassler and his brother entered the shoe business in 1920, but split after World War II to form fiercely competing firms. With some $700...