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About 20 years old, Herbert is approximately 5 ft. 10 in, tall and has a medium build. He has a smooth shave, short cut, and fur-trimmed army surplus parka. He wears green trousers and a dark, turtle-neck sweater. According to Albert Tonis, University police chief and security officer, Herbert "is well spoken" and "may possibly be from the West Indies...
...from the Charles Street MTA stop and is well worth a browse. Emmi has assembled a unique collection of and novelty gifts from all over world, and is terrible excited above authentic Bauernkittel or peasant blouses just in from Switzerland. Emmi charges just $12.40 for this embroidered, royal blue, parka-like garment which is still worn as a native costume in Switzerland. Ideal for skiing and sailing, it also makes a fine windbreaker to wear to class over sweaters...
Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, 160 miles southwest of Washington, where snow usually comes only in unreliable flurries, seems an unlikely spot for a ski resort. Yet last weekend the stately rooms of The Homestead resort were crowded with the parka-and-stretch-pants set. It is the Southland's winter sport resort, and one thing is sure: there should always be snow. Reason: snow machines, an expensive network of pipes, hoses and nozzles lining the ski trails. Water, atomized by a compressed air blast, turns into snow crystals as it sprays out into below-freezing temperatures. Not only...
...places-so the Queen was soon off to Schefferville, an iron-mining village near the Labrador border. She greeted chiefs of the Montagnais-Naskapi Indians, gave one of them a reassuring smile when he lost his balance while curtseying in his blue, fur-trimmed parka. At the U.S.'s Harmon airbase at Stephenville, Nfld., a Ford convertible assigned for royal use failed to start. Prince Philip cracked: "Too bad we don't have a British car"-whereupon the royal couple transferred to a Cadillac. At week's end, the Queen and Prince Philip boarded...
When the pine-trees crack like little guns in the silence of the wood, And the icicles hang down like tusks under the parka hood...