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...Smartest are those by Coty Award Winning Shoe Designers Herbert and Beth Levine, who charge up to $75 for their fisherman's waders. Keeping the boots up is in itself a problem. "I give the woman three loops at the top, and the rest is up to her," says another high-style shoe designer, David Evins. ''You cannot imagine what weird contraptions women have devised to hold them up." The Levines are more merciful: their boots also come with loops, plus a belt to hold the waders...
Flypaper Memory. Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1961 to 1965, Scammon, 52, comes to his role steeped in statistics and unafraid of conclusions. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a longtime Minnesota friend, calls Scammon "one of the smartest men in town," adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes...
...closer to the average 18 months usually given in such cases. Whatever the final sentence, it appears unlikely that Clay-still indisputably the best heavyweight in the world -will ever again be a championship contender. As he himself once noted: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...
...experience in the Far East, and advised JFK as well as his own government on the Laotian muddle. As a veteran disarmament negotiator and UN delegate, he has a subtle feel for the shifting balances of power politics. Finally, he has brains; Kennedy called him "the smartest man I've ever...
...tight and her makeup too much for his Muslim eye, but was ordered to pay $1,200 a month in alimony for ten years and $22,500 in lawyers' fees. All of which added point to Cassius' remark: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...