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...VOICE intones, while the Presidential seal flashes on: "We interrupt this program for a message from the President." "I don't want to be in Vietnam," the President whines. "The Vietnam war..." --he searches for a perfectly clear description--"...is like a pebble in my shoe; it's like blowing a wet fart..." "America has balls..."--again he looks for the perfect phrase--"...and if any of you out there take offense at that you can go take a flying shit...
PHELAN. Hughes' rumpled style of dress was well known. Says Dietrich: "The widely publicized stories about his slouching around in tennis shoes were true, but not for the reasons cited. The best-known story was that he took to sneakers during the war when he ran out of shoe rationing stamps. Actually, for a considerable period of time he had an infection like athlete's foot that he couldn't shake...
While most successful trainers work for privately owned stables. Whittingham runs a public operation catering to such diverse horse owners as Florsheim Shoe Heiress Mary Jones and Composer Burt Bacharach. Says Bacharach: "When I got into this game I learned one thing in a hurry: Charlie knows how to wait. He's patient while others push too hard." Known as a man who "trains the owners," Whittingham says: "Owners have a lot of money invested in these horses, so you can expect them to want to have a say in what goes...
...Then, when Dolphin Running Back Larry Csonka rambled around right end for 29 yds., it was Garo's turn to try from 37 yds. out. Realizing that "this one kick could make or break me," he caught the ball squarely on the instep of his size 7 soccer shoe and lofted it through the uprights. Next day, as 25,000 Miamians turned out to cheer the return of the Dolphins, one expectant mother announced that she was calling her unborn child Garo. Why? "Because it kicks so hard...
...Comptroller Abraham Beame disclosed that 100,000 welfare checks adding up to almost $9,000,000 had been forged over the last five years. Any client who claimed that he lost his check would routinely be issued another by obliging welfare workers, making chiseling a simple matter. When their shoe allotment was cut off in 1968, many recipients simply put it on the other foot, as it were: the bills for orthopedic shoes issued under Medicaid began to rise suspiciously. When they reached an annual cost of $4,000,000 this year, officials tightened the laces to make shoes harder...