Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brain on Ice. If other diplomats shivered at the prospect of another shoe-thumping tantrum, the Assembly's new president, Pakistan's spade-bearded Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, 69, showed last week that he was not about to take any guff. Told by the Russians that the General Committee, of which he is chairman, was "debasing its dignity," Zafrulla Khan retorted coolly: "The committee is the guardian of its own dignity and well able to take care...
...structurally sound. As long as rectangular city blocks dictate the shape of building plots and therefore their most economical use, round buildings will have to be reserved for special architectural occasions. That these occasions arise once in a while in a world of plot-hogging glass and steel shoe boxes is reason enough to be grateful...
...styling. Since Genoa Industrialist Enrico Piaggio sent his Vespa motor scooters swarming through Europe as the first postwar apostles of the Italian look, Italy has become firmly established as the fountainhead of European design. Britain's Clore, whose multitudinous holdings include a corner on 22% of the British shoe market, makes periodic Italian tours to keep up with the latest in footwear; British Motor Corp.'s Harriman turned to Italian Stylist Pinin Farina to design autos that would sell better on the Continent. Harriman has also tailored his autos to continental tastes in less visible ways, e.g., learning...
Wandering through what is called the Harlem section of Albany, Ga. (pop. 59,000), the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 33, paused to talk to clusters of Negroes on street corners, stepped gingerly into a poolroom and a tavern, visited a shoe shop here, a filling station there. He preached a theme that Albany's restless Negroes were finding harder and harder to accept: nonviolence in their drive to desegregate the town...
...intend to use television the extent to which our limited funds will allow us," he continued. "We are operating on a shoe-string budget, but now that I'm on the ballot, several national programs that have shown the other candidates have promised...