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...borrowed skates. Body crooked forward ("sitting down over his skates," experts call it), arms and legs pumping rhythmically, Richard ("Terry") McDermott, 23, slashed through the straightaway, around the turn, and across the finish line in 40.1 sec.-giving the U.S. its first gold medal and an Olympic record to boot...
They underestimated their enemy. Hoiles, now 85, may be a political crank, but he is also a newspaper pro. And he had a big bankroll to boot. His News snapped up the good comic strips, flooded rural districts with sample copies, cut subscription prices to 25? a week, and countered losses by putting out free copies of a shopping guide offered to advertisers at rock-bottom combination rates. Hoiles also strengthened his editorial staff, concentrated on local news, added a Sunday TV supplement. By 1960 the News pulled ahead in circulation and began to get advertisers back. The News still...
...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...
Many a matron has taken to boots, oblivious of the fact that in them most women over 40 look like Captain Hook, not Peter Pan. On the other hand, young women-including some well-heeled, style-conscious teen-agers (see BOOKS)-have jumped in with both feet. A special favorite is the high-heeled, calf-topping black leather model with the rakish, lady-lion-tamer look. Its teetering heels may make it as impractical as a boot can get-certainly not the thing for fording slushy gutters or negotiating icy pavements. A lack of ice and slush makes the high...
Prophetically, Moro had once tried to join the Socialist Party but was turned down as being "too Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were...