Word: mackinaws
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...narrated by the Weavers to a homely little melody, there was a logger who could eat baled hay if someone sprinkled it with whisky. One night when it froze clean through to China, he started off home without his mackinaw. At 100 below, he just buttoned his vest. But at 1,000 below, he froze solid. His sweetheart finally got tired of waiting for him, and went looking for another man who stirred his coffee with his thumb...
Whenever Vermont-born Historian Stewart H. (Holy Old Mackinaw) Holbrook, 56, goes back to the stone-fence-and-maple-sirup world of his boyhood, he is saddened by what he sees. On the rocky, rugged hill where four successive generations of Holbrooks once farmed and raised their children, the wilderness is taking over, "marching from the edges of the old fields and pastures . . . advancing to the barn to break its ribs." As he gazes on his deserted schoolhouse and the ghostly, grass-choked neighboring farms, Historian Holbrook ponders three questions that have haunted his life...
...Buffalo one morning last week the Coast Guard's broad-beamed icebreaker Mackinaw began smashing its way across the icebound harbor. A helicopter rose from its deck and flew ahead to hunt crevices and soft spots, radio back the line of least resistance. In a few hours the Mackinaw-helicopter team-the first used on the Great Lakes-had cleared a channel out into Lake Erie. A dozen ore carriers snaked along the narrow channel and followed the icebreaker down to Cleveland, thus opening navigation on the lower Great Lakes...
...stockpiles of ore were so low that some mills were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through the Straits of Mackinac, and later...
Walking PX. In Sendai, Japan, officials charged baggageless Shoji Nishimoto with illegal possession of U.S. goods when they found cached on his person: one extra pair of trousers, two shirts, one sweater, one mackinaw, one mirror, one bath towel, a complete shaving set, one Navy flashlight, twelve packs of cigarets, 28 cans, packages and bars of candy and food...