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Volpe said he will wage the most energetic fight for the Republican cause in the Commonwealth's history. He assured reporters that he would "use a great deal more shoe leather" this campaign...
...runways, they were introduced as part of the "little boy," or sportif look at last summer's Paris showings. Nobody knew then whether grown-up American women were going to be willing to look like a legion of oversized Christopher Robins. Nobody need have worried. Boots are a shoe...
...lushest, the shocks are worst. To offset this human storage-battery syndrome, some top brass try grounding themselves with door keys, like Franklin's kite. Juniors are careful to pause on metal thresholds before entering the boss's office, in order to discharge accumulated voltage through their shoe soles. "Maybe," says the office manager of a large Manhattan corporation, "we could all trail chains behind us like gasoline trucks...
...since a conviction brings a sentence of only one to ten years if the victim is returned unharmed. But the film is no mere polemic. The story begins with a business conclave in a luxurious home perched on a hilltop high above the smoking slums of Yokohama. While a shoe company executive named Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) struggles with his unprincipled colleagues in a last-ditch fight for control of the firm, a kidnaper strikes. Intending to seize Gondo's young son, he nabs the chauffeur's boy by mistake. Swiftly, the issues narrow to meaningful dimensions: Gondo faces...
...Series records for hits (71) and R.B.I.s (39). He played in more games (2,116) than any Yankee except Lou Gehrig, and he was the most dangerous clutch hitter in baseball. "Anything I can reach, I can hit," he boasted, and he is probably the only player who got shoe polish on his bat from golfing one over the fence. He won three Most Valuable Player awards (nobody has won more), and saw his salary climb to $55,000, highest ever for a catcher. But manager of the Yankees? That was like putting Harpo Marx in the White House, only...