Word: sandal
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Special Squares: (2) Your sandal strap broke: you must go back two squares...
Joanie Phoanie is a sight. She has a roller coaster of a nose, unraveled hair, and sandal straps that look as if they're devouring her legs. She douses herself with deodorant, wolfs down caviar in front of famished children. She sings of brotherhood to incite student riots...
...hundred thousand cans of Viet Nam-bound hair spray? Explosive rubber-sandal chemicals? Suspicious silver nitrate? Pilferage and black marketing from the U.S.'s $375 million-a-year commodity aid program to South Viet Nam (TIME, May 20)? Last week the man responsible for discovering and curbing all these irregularities was back from a new and unpublicized visit to Saigon aimed at investigating currency manipulations and bringing still further control out of chaos. He is J. K. (for John Kenneth) Mansfield, who, as Inspector General of Foreign Assistance, patrols an unending beat, checking on U.S. military and economic help...
...hills, shellbursts alternating with flares dropped by patrolling C-123s, which illuminate the jungle fronds. When guerrillas probe the perimeter wire, alarm gongs bang, trumpets sound and tin cans tied to the endless concentric coils of barbed wire rattle. By day life goes on. In the French seminary, 50 sandal-clad Vietnamese and French priests keep to their prayer schedules. Sixteen American Protestant scholars continue compiling alphabets and grammars for some 48 Montagnard tribal languages...
Rougher landscapes, like Northwestern, demand a fashion staple like a poncho, a tentlike affair that lends a certain army-surplus charm to fragile freshmen huddled beneath. University of Wisconsin girls wear headbands instead of scarves, are so addicted to sandals that a local shoe repairman declared himself a sandal-maker and set up shop a thong's throw from campus. For trips to town, the newest thing is a suit with culotte-like pants instead of a skirt. There is also, unaccountably, a sudden passion for pierced ears among otherwise sensible girls in the Ivy League area (four...