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...catalogue, which is mailed twice yearly to 400,000 customers, is Bean's most potent sales weapon. Its best known item is the "Maine Hunting Boot'' ($11.35 to $23.85), which has a rubber bottom stitched to a leather top. "We know how important those boots are to a man," says L. L. Bean. "He might like them better than his wife." Hunters last year bought 16,000 pairs...
...Presidents of Fiat or Pirelli often have to get their boards' permission before initiating changes. I don't." Several years ago, he rebuffed a government demand that Finsider build a plant in job-starved southern Italy, instead vastly expanded its plants in Genoa before moving down the Boot. Manuelli also publicly opposed the nationalization of Italy's electric power industry this year, arguing that it would only upset the stock market (it did) and "double the public debt." Socialists angrily demanded his scalp, but Manuelli held his job simply because he has done so well...
...boot was short, but not disastrously so. The disaster came after the kick. Yale halfback John Cirie took the ball and started to cut to his right. Much to his surprise, and greatly to the astonishment of the stands, no Harvard man came up to block his pass...
Exeter's diverse writers include Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...
...most perplexing thing to followers of Harvard soccer is why the team isn't winning. In Ohiri the Crimson has one of the most talented offensive players in the East. He is an ace dribbler and header with a boot that stuns goalies...