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...bills simply could not be paid. Brooks and his wife decided that they had to seek help, and he went to the welfare office. "We got some papers in the mail," he recalls, "and it bothered me so bad I got my wife to fill 'em out." He still hopes a thaw, in both the frozen woods and the demand for logs, will let him regain his pride and independence. In the meantime there is only welfare...
...keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree? No problem where Madame de La Tour du Pin was concerned. The Good Old Days did not look all that good to her. She rated Marie Antoinette high on courage, low on intelligence and zero on tact. Louis XVI resembled "some peasant shambling along behind his plough." As for her fellow aristocrats-"laughing and dancing our way to the precipice" -almost all had been "sublimely blind...
Doing the most standing in these days are jeans-a term that has come to mean any pants that are close-fitting, slash-pocketed and welt-seamed. Not the ordinary old-style, head-'em-off-at-the-gulch variety, but jeans in every color from apricot to zinc and fabrics that range from plain corduroys, velours and gabardines to showier crushed velvets, suedes, leathers and even fur. Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. reports jeans sales at "a crescendo"; Chicago's Saks Fifth Avenue puts the boom at "wildfire proportions, even among older women." Five years ago, there...
...puck behind the net, the boiling free-for-all over real or imagined irregularities. And as in football, the team that establishes its physical superiority is most often the one that wins. Says Conn Smythe, former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs: "You can't lick 'em on the ice if you can't lick 'em in the alley...
...match any possible sources of wax in the house. The prosecution did not mention this information before the hearing, though MacDonald had maintained from the beginning that one of the intruders had carried a soft, candlelike light while chanting "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs. Hit 'em again." Then there were the unidentified fingerprints. Though 46 such prints were found-including one in blood in Mrs. MacDonald's jewelry box-none was ever sent to the FBI for a check with its master file...