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...negotiating stance, the Palestinian commando movement struggled to find a position that would be acceptable to its many factions. The Palestinians have not been officially invited to participate in the talks at Geneva. But, as one Arab observer put it, that did not stop them from "fighting over the bearskin before the bear is caught...
...fans know him as a dour churl who snarls at well-wishers and even puts up barriers to keep spectators away from his pit. Readers of Hot Rod magazine, however, were able to see as much of Grumpy as anyone would wish. Clad in skivvies and sprawled on a bearskin rug, he posed for this month's centerfold...
OUTFITTED in all that panoply of royal tradition, Queen Elizabeth's elite regiments have one natural enemy: the conservationist. On the head of every member of the Foot Guards, for example, rises half a Canadian bearskin; from the helmet of the Household Cavalryman sprouts a plume of yak hairs. Whenever the army's 88 military bands wheel into action, the soldiers who carry the big bass drums drape themselves in the skins of leopards and tigers...
...Wall Street continues to woof happily on its financial looms, if the Peking and Hanoi carpetmakers can be taught to weave a softer warp, and if the Soviets don't throw their bearskin rug across more frontiers, then 1969 will be the busiest, dizziest sewing bee in European vacation history," announces the introduction to Fielding's new Guide, published last month. In that same hortatory fashion, Fielding fusses over his readers' clothes ("A sport jacket on an adult is considered improper at the leading restaurants"), warns them about con men ("No matter how dazzling the offer, puh-LEEZE...
Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...