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After the race, Harvard coach Bill McCurdy said that Hewlett, who finished 12th last year, might have won this time if it hadn't been for the elements. All the runners had to fight scattered snow and slush, a 36-degree temperature, and 17-m.p.h. winds, but Hewlett got a particularly bad deal...
...result was cacophonous. A car behind Martin smashed into him and spun sideways. Brakes squealing, slewing in the slush like slalom racers, car after car piled helplessly into the snarl. When things finally skidded to a stop, 34 cars were locked in a tangled mass, blocking the expressway from curb to curb-and providing a classic picture of what happens in modern civilization when the slightest thing goes wrong...
...special favorite is the high-heeled, calf-topping black leather model with the rakish, lady-lion-tamer look. Its teetering heels may make it as impractical as a boot can get-certainly not the thing for fording slushy gutters or negotiating icy pavements. A lack of ice and slush makes the high-fashion boot seem even more impractical in Florida and California. But sexiness triumphs over practicality and weather...
...competitive skiing, seedings are crucial: the best skiers get first crack at a course - while the snow is fresh. The rest make do with slush. Last month when Faure announced his seedings, no American was ranked among the top ten in the downhill, slalom, giant slalom. In the past, that would have caused no great gnashing of teeth. But this year the U.S. has its best men's team ever...
Titles for Sale. To stay there, Lloyd George showered his supporters with promises and promotions. His aides peddled peerages to all wealthy bidders, and the Tory treasurer, an undisclosed bankrupt who was later to be rewarded with an earldom, secretly diverted to Lloyd George's own political slush fund a vast sum that the Conservatives had raised from their supporters. To appease all segments of both parties, Lloyd George by turns advocated peace in Europe and war in the Middle East; he urged rapprochement with Soviet Russia and vowed uncompromising hostility to the Bolsheviks; he paid lip service...