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Altogether Gibson has poured around $300,000 into his hobby (including $50,000 for a log base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with...
...Lazy D Ranch, near Ada, some 400 cattlemen from the U.S. and Canada gathered around a small straw-covered arena. Most of them wore ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and levis. So the most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...
What the Golden Fleece really was-a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded epidermis of a young human sacrifice named Mr. Ram-nobody knows. But Robert Graves is quite sure that, whatever the Golden Fleece was, the voyage of Jason and his Argonauts really happened. His story of "how it really happened" shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time...
...Grants to colleges have misguidedly subsidized materials oftener than men. The Ph.D. degree has become the "union card" of the U.S. college teacher; good non-union teachers are passed over for "wolves wrapped in sheepskin...
...think hell will be as hot as this?" The sergeant snarled: "You'll be afindin' out mighty quick if you don't get a move on." We paddled a little faster and crouched a little lower-and I wished I'd left my sheepskin coat behind, for the heat from the flamethrowers and the burning banks and the patches of burning water were making me uncomfortable...