Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain contraptions are often so heavy and cumbersome that it is hard to see what advantage they offer over the oiled linen cape. Pieces of leather or waxed cotton are tightly stretched over a spokelike array of rattan or whalebone ribs; the ribs are attached by wires and hinges to a central rod so that the covering can be opened out or collapsed at will. It rarely works as planned. The ribs often lose elasticity when wet and crack when dried...
...Kennedy '40. Fathers Six allows the jukebox to play hellishly loud, and while the favorite place for freshmen and other youngsters, is sufficiently worried to check i.d.'s at the door. Fathers is worth trying; under another management and another name, it came perilously close to achieving teen-age leather bar status, but that's changed, thank God. A final note: the Wursthaus has a huge selection of foreign beers, but seriously over priced...
Slightly more than a. year ago, I was in Washington to present a special leather-bound copy of our first Bicentennial issue, Independence!, to President Ford. It was warmly received and read in the White House, and in about 6 million other households-more than any issue of TIME ever published. It seemed appropriate, then, that as soon as TIME'S second Bicentennial issue, The New Nation, was completed, a special edition be given to the country's second highest ranking reader, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. As it turned out, the Vice President had just finished serving...
...wins without a defeat in California primary and general elections. In a state where campaigns are largely electronic, he is by far the superior TV performer. He has the endorsement of the largest G.O.P. volunteer organization, the fealty of most of the Federated Republican Women, who supply precinct shoe leather. Beginning this Wednesday, he can devote complete attention to California, stumping by day and still sleeping in his Pacific Palisades bed at night. Ford's own lieutenants admit that his support is lukewarm and concentrated among moderates with erratic voting habits. Reagan's hard conservative core will vote...
...soccer is attracting thousands of families like the Days. In 1964 the American Youth Soccer Organization started in Torrance, Calif, with 100 boys and nine teams. Today the association has 4,100 teams in 14 states and 62,000 kids, including 15,000 girls, booting the checkered, leather balls across the turf. The U.S. Soccer Federation estimates that more than half a million youngsters play organized soccer and projects 3 million...