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Misha, 23, a factory worker in new jeans and a light brown parka: "I haven't mentioned the death to any of my friends, and they haven't talked about it to me. We are all too busy talking about our own livelihoods. It's up to us to make changes in our lives ourselves, not to wait for the leaders to do it for us. I'm not in the least interested in politics; I didn't even know Chernenko...
High on a hilltop, bareheaded and wrapped in a green parka, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 61, surveyed the Israeli front lines at the Awali River, just north of the Lebanese coastal town of Sidon. "The whole nation appreciates what you did under difficult conditions," the Prime Minister later told his troops. "We never intended to stay here. But we will still keep our eyes open to what dangers could evolve for Israel...
Like the ski parka and the ten-speed bike, multi-hued running shoes have become part of the trappings of the modern American, even if his or her idea of exercise consists only of getting up to turn on the television set to watch the Wide World of Sports. Bearing price tags that range up to $69, the new breed of cushioned rubber athletic shoe has trampled that familiar and often smelly old relic, the sneaker...
...measure a full year too soon, about to assault us once again. So brace yourself for those film clips of frigid handshakes at the gates of bleak factories, with candidates snorting white steam from mouths and nostrils, of flinty, numb voters nodding vacantly at vacant campaign promises; of parka-encased reporters up to their knees in snow, watching and waiting in vain for a phrase or a glance that will rise above the level of the completely forgettable...
...uniform of the day," says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale...