Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both of whom were holding court there last week. The men wear shorts and rope sandals; the women, with or without Bardot's dimensions, wear floppy white hats, brightly colored loose shirts, and pastel trousers so tight that they look as though they had been stuck on. Their feet are bare and bronzed. The czarina of fashion is a waterfront couturiere named Madame Vachon who employs a whole army of peasant girls to sew and cut and iron the simple summer uniforms of the chic. Like many another Tropezien, Madame Vachon has grown very rich, for in Saint-Tropez...
...ground, Alabama's leviathan-like (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...
...statues and holy cards and rosaries to buy: you name it, Sister thought of it last week. (As I understand the parade, the children march around the room, dropping pennies in the mission bank until they run out of funds, the object being, of course, to stay on their feet.) For the upper grades, the approach is more subtle. You forgot your tie? Put a quarter in the bank or stay after school. And this is really ingenious: Sister 'sells' the desks to the class by way of an auction. You want a certain seat, you bid dimes...
...hung around its political neck was not all the Administration paid for convenience. The ethical standards applied to Sherman Adams now had to be applied to lesser Government employees. Last week's hearings revealed that two secretaries, one of them a secretary to Adams who worked within 75 feet of the President's desk, had received Goldfine checks, ranging from $35 to $75. They could hardly be fired, indeed, they could hardly be reprimanded-least of all by their staff chief, Sherman Adams, by whom Goldfine had done better. The Administration was on a hook, partly by deliberate...
...reading primer ("Easy little steps for muddy little feet") is completely Mad: "My teacher is Miss Furd. I tell the school board Miss Furd is a Commie. Miss Furd is through in this town . . . This is Bobby Smith. He is our playmate. Bobby sells reefers to the other children in school...