Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is a fascination with snakeskins today," says Shoe Designer Beth Levine, whose all-python boots are doing nicely at $250 a pair. "It's a whole feeling for slithery things, from a crochet knit to a snake; it's textural and natural." For herself, she adds, "I can live my whole life without a snake." Fortunately for Fleming Joffe Ltd., biggest U.S. supplier of snakeskins, many women cannot. The company did a $1 million-plus trade in skins last year, with python the biggest seller (naturally black and white, the skins are often bleached out and dyed...
...screaming, jostling crowd of 200 rushed them at the airport. When it was all over, the bride had lost the heel of a shoe and her nylons were in shreds. Pursued by paparazzi throughout their Roman honeymoon, South Africa's Dr. Christian Barnard and his Barbara took it all in good heart. After all, "those fellows have a job to do too," said the doctor. He may have second thoughts. From Rome their honeymoon odyssey took them to the U.S., where they caught Liza Minnelli's act in New York, viewed the space center at Huntsville...
Only last year, Penn's swimming team was about as awe-inspiring as Brown's football team or breakfast in the Union. The Quakers were consistent shoe-ins to share last place in the EISL with Columbia...
...Northwest Passage as a feasible route from Alaska's North Slope oilfields to the domestic market. Maine's deepwater harbors, several studies proved, were the only ones along the Eastern Seaboard that could handle the 300,000-ton supertankers. "Instead of playing penny-ante stuff with the shoe industry, Maine was playing for high stakes with the oil companies," says John N. Cole, editor of the fiercely conservationist Maine Times. "And since the oil men had nowhere else to go, Maine held...
...four years now, King Moshoe shoe has been battling to improve his rubber-stamp status. Three years ago, he was committed to palace arrest by the Jonathan regime for inciting a revolt in which 13 Royalists were gunned down by the government's paramilitary police force...