Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Debbie Reynolds, 28, Eddie Fisher's ex; and Harry Karl, 46, millionaire shoe manufacturer who has trouble keeping his laces tied-he married and divorced Hollywood's Marie ("The Body") McDonald twice, stayed married to Cinemogul Harry Conn's widow for 23 days; she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Hollywood...
Massachusetts. With his Early American homeliness and diffident Yankee drawl, blueblooded Leverett Saltonstall, 68, strikes any New Englander as being "as comfortable as an old shoe." Carefully eschewing brilliance, Republican Saltonstall in his 16 years in the Senate has won the admiration even of Massachusetts Democrats for his solid performance on the Armed Services and Small Business Committees and for his unflagging drive to bring new industry into his state...
...Western officials happily noted that Guinea has also just concluded a credit agreement with Britain and a trade pact with West Germany. And a fortnight after the U.S. agreement was signed, Guinea's President Touré rose in the U.N. Assembly to criticize Khrushchev's bullying, shoe-thumping tactics. Added up, it all revived the hopes of many that the Red tint in Sékou Touré's cloak of "neutralism" was not necessarily permanent...
...first man ever to take off his shoe and use it for a gavel at the U.N. last week gathered 12,000 of the faithful in the Lenin Sports Palace in Moscow and gave his candid opinion of the international body. "A terrible organization!" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. "If you could see how the delegates behave! They get much money and spent much time in restaurants with their wives. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting. One important head of a delegation...
...same unpleasant item of Communist subject nations, Rumania's Mezincescu, clearly feeling he had not been noisy or rude enough before, interrupted with a frenzied, podium-pounding display. He shouted that Assembly President Frederick Boland was partial toward "supporters of the colonialists," and Khrushchev again took off his shoe and thumped his desk with it. To restore order, President Boland pounded his gavel until it broke. "Because of the scene you have just witnessed," Boland coldly told the delegates, "I think the Assembly had better adjourn." It was the most disorderly session in U.N. history, and the first ever...