Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the fourth encore the one on the left steps to the microphone: "No doubt," he says, "some of you out there are wondering which is which " They are indeed, for Duo-Pianists Ferrante Teicher look as much alike as they Play. In their patent leather shoes electric red jackets, black-rimmed spectacles and matching pompadour toupees they are the Tweedle twins of the concert stage...
...Down, One Up. New consumer spending, for instance, should result from the President's proposed $1.8 billion cut in excise taxes. Likely to be eliminated are taxes on such items as leather goods, furs, toiletries and cameras...
...Last year Wegner won $20,757-enough to make him the world cham pion of bull riding and the proud possessor of a nicely tooled leather and silver saddle (worth $800) awarded in Denver last week. His winnings so far this season total $2,556, more than $1,000 ahead of his closest competitor on the rodeo circuit. But Wegner's traveling expenses alone run to $12,000 a year, and he bets on himself to make ends meet. "I went up to Omak, Wash.," he says, "and this outfit had a bull they said had never been ridden...
...addition, 76 textile mills, 20 leather factories and a number of other suppliers of raw materials will switch to producing to the demand of the converted consumer-goods factories. Though Liberman is not likely to replace Lenin in the hierarchy of Communist saints, and though both the professor and Moscow protest too much that Libermanism is not capitalism, Russia is clearly looking backward in its most important economic experiment in several decades...
...Scully who did most of the damage. He had 15 points during the last nine minutes of play, and 24 for the game. When Scully tries his twisting, underhanded lay-up against experienced big men, he frequently winds up picking leather from between his teeth. But the Brobdingnagian Indian sophomores were baffled by his tactics...