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...Although the stuff is getting scarce, an easy way to save money is to go army surplus. The finest pants available are still those army wind pants developed in some Army hinterland testing center. If you plan to hit the frequently wet northeast slopes, then the best bet for boots, is still the army mouse boot--Korean vintage--if you can still find a pair. Some itchy wool thermal underwear and a couple of wool sweaters still do the job better than most commercial products. Wool retains its warmth when wet--as anybody who has awakened to frozen cottom sweat...
...Penn State schedules, art-deco posters of Paterno, autographed pictures of the local stars, speak for themselves. Soon, inevitably, the men watch as the provincial "punks" snicker, scoff and snort about whichever bowl Penn has "bullshat its way into this year," and about whichever regional favorite of theirs could "boot the Nits out of the Top Fifty." After allowing enough time for the rhetoric to billow up and fog the windows over completely, the men call, silently, for bet-backed talk or a little silence from the visitors. The bowl stakes, as well as the gas bill, are reckoned before...
...find their supreme joy only in the presence of a fact, and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter what sort of a fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would...
...almost any place along the boot of Italy, there is evidence of breakdown. In Rome, hundreds of police fought pitched battles with 600 left-wing students in a square in the picturesque Trastevere section, Rome's equivalent of the Left Bank. Outside Milan, arsonists, probably belonging to a leftist group called the Red Brigades, burned down the warehouses of a company associated with ITT, destroying $10 million worth of telephone equipment. Near Naples a mob of unemployed men, along with their families, blocked a main north-south railway line. Fifty people were arrested before the line was reopened...
...that every tongue confesses that Christ is the only Lord and Saviour." Yet he also noted that even "non-Christian religions must no longer be regarded as rivals, but as a field of lively, respectful interest." In any case, added Ireland's Cardinal Conway, "there must be no boot-in-the-door type of salesmanship...