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...Sigma Nu, still retains a "whites only" clause, but has permitted chapters, if pressured by college officials, to request special dispensation to admit Negroes. Sigma Chi requires national approval of every member by a screening committee supplied with racial and religious information on each applicant - and a photograph to boot...
...Down with the Boot." Predictably, Lechin's Bolivian Labor Confederation called a general strike that shut down the railroads, factories, textile mills and tin mines. In La Paz itself, 4,000 factory workers shouting, "Down with the military boot!" sacked and burned the office of the military's domestic airline before police rifle fire dispersed the mob, killing one rioter and wounding 19. The demonstrations went on for six days. Then the workers started trickling back to work, leaving only the miners still storming around...
...lift the skirts of the Western world. "I'm not interested in a woman's knees. What's important is that the rhythm and volume of the whole be right." He insisted that customers who would be flying skirts at three-quarter mast should wear boots to boot. "Without them," he protests, "short skirts look ridiculous...
...straps and conspicuous buttons, buckles and bows. Needle-nosed tips have been replaced by rounder, softer toes, and heels are becoming even shorter and wider. At the same time, somewhat alarmingly, teen-age boys are taking to high heels. International Shoe has had a runaway success with its "Beatle Boots," which have 11-in. tapered heels; Melville Shoe Co. (Thorn McAn) has brought out a boot with a 2-in. tapered heel, also offers the teens zebra stripes and wildly colored linings...
...Giblin, 67, onetime Florida mouthpiece for Al Capone, who later served nine tempestuous years as a suddenly crusading Dade County circuit judge, fighting quickie divorces and getting the residence law changed from 90 days to six months, all the while venting his terrible temper ("I'd like to boot her in the fanny!" "You're a pygmy on stilts!") to such an extent that he was finally forced to retire in 1959; of cancer; in Miami...