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...teenagers in French Foreign Legion uniforms sweeping up cigarette butts in front of the imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...
...last month of 1985, McNeely's office collected $1,820.65 in fines, double or triple the amount his predecessors usually brought in. Wearing a leather vest, a .357 in a holster and silver conches on his belt, the marshal was going over his ledgers when an elderly woman stuck her head in the door. "This is a $10 fine," she said. "I just don't think this is fair to the tourist. I was only there a little while...
Later, during lunch, Marcos and his wife relaxed and even joked. At one point the former First Lady gently needled her husband. "You look like a clerk," she quipped when Marcos removed his jacket and vest in the sultry afternoon heat. "That's better than looking jobless," the ostracized couple then said in unison. Mrs. Marcos also hearkened back to her now infamous collection of shoes. "The maid assures me there were not 3,000 pairs," she said. She then summoned the woman, who dutifully testified that the First Lady's wardrobe included only 200 pairs of shoes. Mrs. Marcos...
...people gathered, amid tight security, on the sprawling lawns of the New Delhi Boat Club to hear her son and successor, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, compare his mother's "sacrifices" with those of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who led India's drive for independence from Britain. Wearing a bulletproof vest and standing near an 80-ft.-high picture of his mother, the Prime Minister declared that Indira Gandhi was "not my mother alone, but the mother of every poor man and woman in this country." Then he led the crowd in a chant: "Indira Gandhi is immortal...
Kidder also provides bonuses: vest-pocket essays on architecture and the lumber business; insights into bidding, building techniques and the pleasures of physical labor. His builders are a proud bunch not given to "cob jobs," carpenters' jargon for sloppy work. Their praise is dispensed with the left hand, as in "perfect enough" or "good enough for Amherst." By this standard, Tracy Kidder's book is not too cobby...