Word: leatherizing
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...their assignment last week was not quite as predictable as covering an established beat, it did call for the shoe leather and craft that cubs learn early. Schecter visited the GUM store before Pat Nixon and noticed that one section was being prettied up by workers. He guessed that this was a department in which the First Lady was going to stop. When he returned later with Pat and her entourage, Schecter positioned himself at the pre-selected spot and was able to hold his vantage point. All three correspondents divided their time between the pomp and color...
DOWN a red-carpeted stairway came the two men, walking to a simple table beneath the giant gilt chandelier of the Kremlin's St. Vladimir Hall. Protocol aides laid blue and red leather folders before them. One of the men joked about the number of times he had to sign the documents. Then Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev rose. Handshakes, champagne, toasts. With some variations, the scene had become familiar, even repetitive, by the time the summit ended...
...operating in them are not required to charge taxes. Most specialize in heavily taxed items, especially liquor, tobacco, cosmetics and perfume. But at some airports the careful shopper can also pick up excellent buys in cameras, radios, tape recorders, French cashmere sweaters, British woolen yard goods, Swiss watches and leather handbags, to name a few of the more widely available goodies. Some tips on airport emporiums...
...Roll Musical." Grease's book is a silly boy-girl story, and its music and lyrics are a pastiche of early '50s rock, rarely approaching the authentic inanity of the originals. But it is exquisite and excruciating in its details, from the boys' ducktail haircuts, leather jackets and cool, hang-loose slouches to the girls' cinch belts, nylon blouses, ballet slippers with white socks, pedal pushers and black gang jackets with their insignia, The Pink Ladies, pink-embroidered on their backs...
...major bit of fortune (half good, half mis-) is his acquaintance with the millionaire. The two meet when the Tramp prevents the unhappy drunk from drowning himself. The grateful man pledges his eternal friendship. After putting on the patent leather shoes he had carefully removed before attempting suicide, the millionaire takes the Tramp out on a glorious so used night on the town. But when the sober light of morning comes, the suicidal friend returns to his calm, business-as-usual self. He throws out his little friend whom he does not even remember. But at strategic moments the millionaire...