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...have stayed away. Such is the condition of the treasury at the Democratic National Committee that it has been unable to pay a considerable bill owed to American Airlines. After Committee Treasurer Donald Petrie hung up on an important representative of the airline and called him a "jerk" to boot, American canceled the committee's twelve credit cards. Key staffers are now planning to pay as they...
...same time, Algeria is anxious to maintain its revolutionary image, especially among the black countries to the south, and has welcomed not only the Black Panthers but a score of other revolutionary groups, including the Committee for the Liberation of the Canary Islands. Boumedienne thus could not simply boot Cleaver out of the country without some diplomatic embarrassment...
...easy to wear-at least initially. Men must take shorter steps than most of them are used to and be careful not to stumble while climbing steps or catch their heels riding escalators. "It's a whole new trip," says Maurice Boucher of L.A.'s Vibrations Boot Parlor. "Men have never had to think about changing their style of walking or sitting or even driving a car." To ease the transition, many store owners recommend that their customers wear a 2-in. heel before stepping up to anything higher...
...unwarranted. From the profusion of royal riches in the Moscow Kremlin's Armory Museum (one look and you understand why the Revolution took place) the Soviet exhibition committee selected a bit of pearl-embroidered brocade from the raiment of a Russian Orthodox Patriarch, a pearl-encrusted red velvet boot, and Ivan the Terrible's embroidered saddle. The Armory also has a magnificent collection of bejeweled gold and silver filigree icon casings, spectacular chalices and royal plate. Only a dozen of the least successful, gaudiest pieces are on exhibition--ostentatiously displayed on red velvet enclosed by modernistic, plexiglass domes...
...little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern Arrow," Pietro Mennea, a native of Barletta on the heel of Italy's boot. Or perhaps stocky Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa of the Malagasy Republic. Borzov remains unbeaten, but at the trials for the U.S. team last month, two qualifiers exploded past his best time. Slim, goateed Eddie Hart and Reynaud ("Sugar Rey") Robinson both equaled the world record...