Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever Without End, on which he has worked for 21 years, he selected each brick from a yard in Aurora, added a baby shoe lovingly plucked from an ash heap in Warrenville, and topped it off with a corset that belonged to his mother. One still life required him to keep fish in the freezer for three months, taking them out for three hours a day. "As soon as they began to thaw, I would stick them back in the freezer," he explains. Title of this work? Ah God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering...
Died. Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev, 61, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime (1955-60) delegate to the U.N. who never banged a shoe or threw phony fits but achieved dubious fame in 1956 when he pooh-poohed the Hungarian uprising as a conspiracy among "fascist counterrevolutionaries"; after a long illness; in Moscow...
...peace-keeping operations in the Middle East and the Congo. Unless the Russians kick in this time, the U.S. will move to strip them of their General Assembly vote under Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which ought to touch off the liveliest scene since Khrushchev took off his shoe. If and when that problem is settled, the long-nettlesome issue of Red China's admission to the U.N. is certain to follow...
...your ankles and heel cords supple. A good exercise is to stand facing a wall with both feet touching the wall. Leave one foot with toes touching the all and draw the other foot back 3 shoe-lengths from the wall. Hold this leg straight at the knee and crouch forward until the other knee touches the wall. Repeat alternating legs. Similar results may be obtained by walking up and down stairs without bending the knees...
...company decided to create an aura of luxury around the new synthetic by initially making it scarce and as costly as top-quality leather; prices for most of the shoes now range from $20 up, but Corfam may also appear in less expensive shoes in the spring. The public's response, despite the high prices and limited styles so far, has surprised even Du Pont. Corfam shoes are being turned out by 45 major shoemakers, and stores are heavily reordering. Already 700,000 customers have bought the shoes; Du Pont hopes that Corfam in 20 years will...