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This past Christmas Jim Bredar and I drove that route to Winter Park Ski Area in his old Toyota Jeep, as he had done hundreds of times before. The sky was overcast and it was freezing inside the jeep because the heater was busted and the windows didn't close all the way. We got to Winter Park around 8:30 a.m.--early, before the lifts started, because Jim was a senior ski patrolman and had to get instructions from the patrol leader before the mountain opened--and I was so numb I wondered if I could...
...standard bikini has not been neglected. The Italian version below by Anna Club is done up in gold lame, guaranteed to cast a glow even on overcast days. Next to it is Fiorucci's red string bikini, which has attractions of its own. But the new maillots (French for both baby clothes and bathing suits) are something else. Ashore, these clinging one-piece numbers are pinafore-demure. Wetted, they become second skins, as close to the body as sun tan oil. They are also practical. Halston says of his hot-pink strapless model on the next page: "It gives...
...Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, who for the past 25 years has been "by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." Despite cool weather and gray, overcast skies that occasionally exploded in rainstorms, it was a week of exuberant festivity, offering the kind of stately pageantry that no other nation in the world can equal. Silver trumpets blared fanfares, batteries of cannon fired multigun salutes, Union Jacks bedecked homes and shops throughout Britain...
...closing, we ask Mr. Savit if he really thinks that that grey, overcast day which threatened rain was really a "beautiful autumn afternoon." Did you actually make it up to the game, Mr. Savit? Six Dartmouth students
Considering the game-time conditions--56 degrees, wet, overcast and drizzling--the afternoon could have been a lot worse. In fact, for the 14,000 or so brave souls who sat through three hours of rain and cold at Soldiers Field Saturday, the reward was an interesting football game and a 37-14 Harvard victory over Boston University...