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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Con Man Hits Dorms, Poses as Traveler | 11/21/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: The Clothes Horse | 10/13/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Snow Job | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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