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...Kimberly (in red gloves and shoes), who had made an entrance into Austin that was spectacular even by Texas standards. Included in the Kimberly entourage: a trailer loaded down with two Ferraris, a machine-shop truck, a station-wagon car complete with bar, and two expert mechanics. The whole outfit was decked out in Kimberly's favorite fire-engine...
Although several potenial oarsmen dropped out at the start of the spring season, Reynolds put together a first boat that is still together. "They're a smooth outfit, with lots of spirit, and right now I see no reason for breaking them...
Probably 50 percent of the coaches wear again some item of clothing they had worn at a winning meet. Typical examples are Hal Ulen and Bill Brooks, who coach the varsity and freshman swimming teams respectively. Ulen restricts himself to repeating a tie, but Brooks will repeat his entire outfit...
When the Wehrmacht began to surrender, the general led the remnants of his outfit to neutral Liechtenstein. The men scattered. Pressured by the Kremlin, the tiny principality ordered the general to leave. With the help of the Russian Orthodox archbishop of Argentina, a friend of Juan Perón, he got permission to take the last of his men to Buenos Aires...
...situation was tailor-made for the Reds: all over the country, the workers, galled by remorseless price rises, were in a rebellious mood. On Rio's waterfront, dockers by the droves left the government-controlled union, went over to a militant new independent outfit; they refused to do any overtime work until the government started paying bonuses promised last December. Merchant marine officers threatened a strike that would tie up the government's two shipping lines. Even doctors at government institutions in Rio staged a one-day strike. Things were at their worst in São Paulo...