Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...
...acre estate high in the Santa Monica Mountains, where his wife, the former Mrs. Alix Van Rensselaer Devereux Wanamaker, often joins him at his hobby, gardening. At work amid the thunder of aircraft at Lockheed Air Terminal, Gross operates out of a resolutely old-shoe office, with bare green walls, a few wooden and leather-covered chairs reminiscent of his Harvard undergraduate days, and a rolltop desk. One visible vanity: a different pair of Ben Franklin spectacles with frames to match each day's fastidious London suit and breast-pocket handkerchief...
...recent survey shows that walking is still West Germany's No. 1 Sunday recreation. Both the cities of Essen and Bonn last year staged highly successful community "walking days." A two-year-old Spazierengehen Stiftung (Strolling Foundation) has so far awarded 34,430 gold, silver and bronze shoe-shaped medals to enthusiastic strollers who have walked respectively 300, 200, and 100 hours in a single year. Presided over by, of all people, Georg von Opel of the car clan, the Strolling Foundation has even coined a slogan for motorists: "Get out and walk...
...shoe of shoes was the one that was almost invisible: a clear plastic model decorated with baubles and bangles that appeared to float on the foot. Launched this week by Yves St. Laurent, who shows 40 pairs, the shoe is the creation of Roger Vivier, 52, Paris master bottier who now designs for nine major Paris couturiers...
...week, it would be easy to get the impression that the country "has gone merger-mad." In the last decade, the number of corporate mergers in Britain has increased from roughly 300 a year to more than 800. Britain's takeover tycoon, Charles Clore, having brought together the shoe industry in his British Shoe Corp., has added to it the Lewis's Investment Trust, a department-store chain, for which he paid almost $180 million. The metals-manufacturing firm, Tube Investments, has bid to take over Charles Churchill, one of the biggest machine-tool makers...