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...black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm was on its way and everybody better watch out. He had little talent...
...labor union is indeed riddled with corruption. The Executive Council will probably approve the report and then, just before the Teamster convention in Miami Beach, warn the union to clean house or face expulsion from the united labor movement. To kick out nearly 10% of its members with one boot would be a painfully drastic move for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., but it may come to that if, despite the clean-up-or-else warning, Hoffa gets himself elected president. James Riddle Hoffa would be one new broom that could hardly be expected to sweep clean...
...Mikoyan's favorite pastimes was preparing New Year's gifts, and deciding what to give whom. Some typical decisions of those days: for Stalin, a chocolate jack boot; for Molotov, a chocolate stool; for Khrushchev, a chocolate bottle; for Malenkov, a chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master...
...could only sigh, and some among them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains in the toe of Italy's boot, the act of rape is often the precursor of enforced marriage, and the young mayor with his flashing eye and dark, curly hair had all the earmarks of a guappo-a dashing and romantic figure...
...recruits a year ago, the top brass of the Parris Island training base have been quick to court-martial drill instructors accused of mistreating their recruits. Last month Corporal William R. Walsh, the eleventh D.I. charged within a year, was found guilty of illegally "touching" 18-year-old Boot David Lee Porter. Sentenced to 30 days at hard labor, fined $120 and broken to private, Walsh took his punishment like a Marine. But there was someone else at Parris Island...