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...mile off Taranto, a fishing village on the instep of the Italian boot, the water was opalescent last July, as it always is when the Mediterranean sunlight hits the white bottom ooze and is reflected and refracted up to the surface. Thirty feet down, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, Master of Quincy House, sometime archeologist, onetime boxer and parachutist, and would-be aviator, was scuba diving...
...come down. And there, right at floor level, many observers found their news. It was in shoes. Never has high-fashion footwear been so low. When models didn't walk barefoot, they paraded out in flat Mary Janes with straps round the ankle or across the instep. What heels there were, came in the shape of round rhinestone-covered balls or thick Pilgrim squares...
Graham kicked seven field goals, getting four with his instep and three others with straight-on too kicks. Graham also scored the Crimson's other two points, as he stopped Dudley Bonnington III, the Princetonian's bearded quarterback, in the and zone for a safety. Bennington trice and Graham got his too on him with a feet-first leap...
...down within 40 yds. or so of pay dirt, they can always call on the services of Charlie Gogolak. Like his brother Pete, who boots field goals and extra points for the American Football League's champion Buffalo Bills, Charlie kicks the ball soccer-fashion, with his instep rather than his toe-and he already holds practically every college place-kicking record. So far this season, he has booted 25 straight points after touchdown, 15 field goals (longest: 54 yds.) in 19 tries, ranks No. 1 among college scorers with 70 points...
...time Hedges evades the issue. He sneaks off to spend the night with a "sordid woman"-he is shocked to discover that she doesn't have twin beds. He makes a pass at a cute trick who works for him-he is startled to get stabbed through the instep by her stiletto heel...