Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incapacitating illness. But the Queen is doing her best to see that Charles' long apprenticeship will be a useful one, and so is Charles, who has sat down with advisers to chart an independent career akin to his father's. He is already privy to the red "boxes," locked leather cases of official state papers, that Westminster and Whitehall dispatch daily to the Queen (even Prince Philip does not receive them). Charles can also expect to act more and more as the Queen's "vice president, embarking for foreign capitals on the good-will trips and, tied in with them...
Such a drive can be an ego trip. Or it can be a rediscovery of old excitements: the fragrance of wood and leather, the closeness to the road, a sense of individualism preserved on the all-too-homogenized human highway...
...best and brightest new chariots have power brakes and steering, automatic transmission, air conditioning, pushbutton everything, burnished walnut burl paneling, 18 layers of paint, bark-tanned glove-leather upholstery, gold-plated fixtures, eight-track stereo and, at extra cost, carpeting of ermine, mink or chinchilla...
...profit of about $1 million. The book is priced at $19.95, and there are also special editions. One, at $50, includes Nixon's signature and a slipcase cover. For a select group of 2,500 Nixon loyalists, who have been solicited by mail, there is a $250 leather-bound autographed edition...
...month that holiday travel starts to soar, and this year vacationers will be offered a bagful of bargains in air fares−thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them...