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...landing was safely effected, and the brave (and profane) aviatrix was lifted half frozen from the framework seat in the front of her flying machine. She was dressed in a fur-lined leather suit and helmet and wore fur-lined gauntlets...
...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 was not a single jeans store in the country. Now there are more than...
Game Ranching. Another avenue is to ranch animals for their meat, fur and other products. This makes solid economic sense, because the meat-producing capability of East Africa is greater than that of any other natural region in the world. The ranching of certain herbivores would also help preserve the land. Antelopes, for example, eat more kinds of food than cattle and consequently do not damage grasslands as much. They also use less food and water than do domesticated animals, while providing just as much meat...
...sport aviary. At last count. Wide Receiver Dick Gordon of the Chicago Bears had 27 pairs of "creative" shoes ("They really express what's inside a guy"), ten suede suits, 35 pairs of pants, 50 shirts, 20 sweaters, eight multicolored caps, seven leather coats and two fur topcoats. The only problem, he says, is "that I'm a little short on underwear...
...with his autobiography. In I've Got To Be Me, he offered his philosophy: "I like a swinging chick who grooves on life. One who's kind of warm, wet and wild." In his bachelor digs he installed a bar, mood lighting, a wall-to-wall white fur rug, and a circular bed beneath a mirrored ceiling...