Word: barefooted
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...King" of Cocos, John Clunies-Ross, 25, and his beautiful "Queen" Daphne, whom he wooed and won in London in 1951. Garbed in a Molyneux gown and feathered hat flown from England for the occasion, Daphne Clunies-Ross, who in the last three years has grown used to island barefoot fashions, was plainly uncomfortable in her high-heeled shoes...
...standards of 1954-model materialism, the world's first black republic should perhaps still be reckoned an insanitary, barefoot failure. But by less pragmatic standards, it must be counted a heart-warming success-gentle, peaceable, individualistic, persevering and utterly free. With an eye cocked on awakening Africa, Paul Magloire passionately argues: "Haiti has shown by its struggle for liberty and progress that the black race and small nations can . . . achieve a status equal to that of any other human group. Haiti has given the lie to those who pretend that certain races are unfit for liberty, equality and self...
...third wife, Ruth Fagan, 35, dead in a sleazy furnished room. The poet sprawled on the floor, a paperback copy of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us propped awkwardly on his chest, covering a .22-cal. bullet hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock. Working on the theory that the murders might have been a crime of passion, police began looking for the ex-convict who had rented...
...Faisal al Saud, son of the Sultan of Nejd, grew up lean and strong, ignorant of book learning, but a whirlwind in the saddle and a master of desert wile. As a boy, he was made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds, by the House of Rashid...
...Dartmouth loss seem more like a cold than cancer. The Yale line was good last year, it is even better now. Few teams have been able to go through it, most, in order to gain, have had to go over it. Bill Beagle, whose thoughtless refusal to kick barefoot has disappointed thousands of spectators completed four touchdown passes last Saturday...