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Toga Switch. Meanwhile the British, who begin wilting at around 75°, were hard pressed to keep their dignity starched. Businessmen were actually sighted coatless on London streets as temperatures stubbornly hovered near 90° each day, and a beat-the-heat letter to the London Times suggested that since Romans were known for their dignity, perhaps gentlemen should switch to togas. Switching to topless bathing in the fountains of Trafalgar Square, however, cost three young ladies a police summons. Even the royal family was having trouble keeping its cool, since neither Buckingham Palace nor Windsor Castle is air-conditioned...
...twilight in 30° weather, Kolling stands coatless at the Northway Mall, distributing flyers that play up Jimmy Carter's picture and name over those of his delegates because the candidate's persona is the strongest selling point. "Excuse me, sir," he says. "My name is Chuck Kolling, and I'm running as a delegate in the April 27th primary, committed to Jimmy Carter. Appreciate your consideration...
...Coatless in a raw February wind, the Prime Minister hoisted himself onto the back of a green Land Rover in the courtyard of the North Ealing Conservative Club. The wind had long since whipped the hand-lettered WELCOME TED HEATH sign from the club's red-tiled roof, but his audience of 150 constituency workers loyally shivered through Heath's homiletic. Winding up the set-piece campaign talk, he proclaimed that thanks to the oil that will be gushing from the North Sea before the end of the decade, "we are going to be one of the fortunate...
...Representative Mendel J. Davis, 29, godson of Mendel Rivers, the late autocratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Davis is banking on the "Mendel mystique" and his role as protector of the military installations that were his godfather's legacy to the district. Limehouse, who goes about coatless and tieless and shows up at Democratic rallies to hand out free soft drinks, accuses Davis of being "pure old Southern Claghorn...
...thronged Santiago's 100,000-seat National Stadium was Chile's new elite. There were rural campesinos carrying scythes, cement workers in blue hardhats, electricians in yellow ones, copper miners whose helmet lights glowed eerily in the dusk. For nearly two hours they listened as their tieless. coatless President, Salvador Allende Gossens, reeled off numbers-of farms expropriated, factories nationalized, peasants resettled on their own new lands. "The Chilean road toward socialism," he boomed, "has been realized with the least social cost of any other revolution in the world...