Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change, not love, that makes the world go around; love only keeps it populated") and hard-punching ("This is the great era of the goof-off, the age of the half-done job") that requests for reprints come in at the rate of 20 a day. An old-shoe type, he has a kick like a hobnailed boot when he wants something done better-which is pretty often. When a copywriter ventured that an idea had come to him "like a bolt out of the blue," Brower remarked: "Looks to me like you were struck with a broomstraw...
...quiet, warehouselike building at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, N. Mex. are six racks of shelves, each 28 ft. long, 3 ft. wide and 20 ft. high. Each rack has seven shelves; on each shelf are 48 grey metal boxes; and the whole thing looks as passive as a shoe factory's inventory. Actually, it is the first half of the Zeus capacitor, one of the world's most violent bits of equipment...
...Symbols. Choreographer Cunningham, 38, learned his first fancy steps from an oldtime vaudeville performer who taught him a sailor's hornpipe in a special soft-shoe version. That was back home in Centralia, Wash., where Cunningham grew up, the son of a country lawyer. In those days he used to tap-dance at the local Grange Hall, eventually graduated to a summer session at California's Mills College, where he met Martha Graham and agreed to join her company. In the Graham years he danced male leads in such works as Letter to the World and Appalachian Spring...
...sets out to rescue his damsel in distress. In the course of the hero's aro-mantic maunderings, the customer gets quite an eyeful of Spain: the Alhambra, the Alcazaba, the Cathedral at Malaga, the bullfights at Pamplona. He also gets a snootful: apples, peaches, brandy, wine, tobacco, shoe polish, peppermint, roses, garlic, not to mention the local skunks (Peter Arne, Paul Lukas). All in all, everybody will probably have a snorting good time...
...Shoes & a Boot. One night, Morrison recalls, the objective was a shoe store. "Since the 40th District [the cops' own] was guarding it, it was very easy for all the boys to help themselves . . . We all started loading tons of these shoes. We filled up 30 or 40 big cartons with shoes. We were filling the squad car up and the trunk with shoes, all different sizes, for all their relatives and themselves. They're all wearing these shoes-it says Crawford Shoes on them. Everybody got four or five pair in their home. The rest of them...