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Figures & Signs. McNamara was born in San Francisco in 1916. His father, a sales manager for a shoe firm, was 25 years older than his mother. Both doted constantly on their first and only son (a second child. Margaret, was born three years later). Young Bob was an early reader, fast with figures but sickly, and he was 15 before he showed signs of wanting to break out of the protective parental eggshell. He did: he went to sea as an ordinary hand, traveled once through the Panama Canal, once to the Orient and four times to Hawaii...
Then, at 900,000 feet, you'll get the feeling that you must have a banana!" The cartoon is excellent, but doesn't Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom have his left shoe on his right foot? JIM HONIGSCHMIDT Robbinsdale, Minn. ¶ So it seems, but not to Cartoonist Emmwood...
...first time since Khrushchev's shoe-banging session, the U.N.'s 99 members gathered in Manhattan for another meeting of the General Assembly. They did so in a somber and disheartened mood that posed the question whether the U.N. can long survive as an effective body...
Already Parisian shoe stores are selling copies of Vivier's square-toed look for as little as $6 a pair. In the U.S., shoemen anticipate that the chisel-toed look will take longer to catch on. But by fall, fashion setters bet that the feet of U.S. women will show that they too have gone square...
...England the winkle picker is an extremely pointed-toe shoe. The term is derived from the sharp pin used in eating periwinkles...