Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, out of a cast again but still wearing a brace, Larsen could move his foot and walk with only a moderate hitch in his stride. He insists that he will soon be playing tennis again. As to why there had been no prompt report of the surgical feat, Dr. Byers says: "In 1962, I didn't know that it hadn't been done before, and the job wasn't complete until the patient could move his toes...
...Plastic is the material of the present, of the future," says Vivier. He swears his plastic shoes won't cut or heat up the foot (there are tiny airholes along the arch). In fact, he sees the new plastique as an engineering feat: "Nothing is more flattering. These shoes lengthen the foot, make it look narrower, and even seem to make big feet look smaller...
...favored treatment, and used his position as Finance Minister to drive through prohibitive tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory. In the Western Region, all but one of the government party's 54 regional assemblymen drew fat extra paychecks for doubling as Ministers or parliamentary officials-a feat that President Nnamdi Azikiwe (who sat out the revolt in England, recuperating from a recent illness) once described in disgust as "a world record...
...Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 68, announced from her home town of Skowhegan that "I am humbly seeking re-election" for a fourth term. Last June the U.S. Senate passed Resolution 116, marveling warmly that Senator Smith had just cast her 2,000th roll-call vote without a miss-a feat "unparalleled in the history of the Senate." Her only declared opposition so far in Maine comes from a Democratic state representative named Plato Truman. If Mrs. Smith can lick that combination, she will automatically become the ranking Republican on the powerful Armed Services Committee, now that Massachusetts Neighbor Leverett Saltonstall...
...over but the shouting. Producer Ray Stark could have made a documentary or he could have made a movie about von Choltitz's moral dilemma (uninteresting though it may be). Instead he has attempted to place every page of the book in Gallic animation--a feat awesome in itself since every page is as boring as the next. But he has indeed been faithful...