Word: leatherizing
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...passengers for Trans World Airlines' flight 841 lined up to board their jet in Athens last week, an alert supervisor named Frixos Servetopoulos noticed that two men and a woman were carrying identical brown leather satchels. Feigning routine interest, Servetopoulos inspected one bag, then scurried to call the police. In short order, the three passengers were arrested. Inside their luggage was found an arsenal of pistols, hand grenades and bombs. The three were also carrying mimeographed statements announcing that the airliner was being skyjacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P...
...friend happened to be Charles Eames, the multitalented industrial designer whose molded plywood and leather "Eames chair" is a furniture classic. Busy on a host of other projects-films, graphics, toys and the IBM Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, to name a few-Eames took twelve years to satisfy Wilder's need, while Billy had to make do with a chair and ottoman. But the result, called simply "the Chaise" by its designer, was worth the wait. It is a long, curiously narrow (only 17½ in. wide), aluminum and leather chair, shaped beyond...
...some 40 chapters around the U.S. The Panthers themselves refuse to give figures; echoing Malcolm X, they contend that "those who know don't say, and those who say don't know." The members include both men and women. Since the once familiar uniform of black leather jacket, turtleneck sweater and black beret has been so widely affected by non-Panthers, they now wear it less frequently. Panther funds come mainly from the 25? newspaper, which sells as many as 100,000 copies a week, and from speaking fees for Panther leaders-although law-enforcement officials contend that...
When I entered the terminal, there were cops all over the place, big Philadelphia cops with black leather jackets like the Panthers, and big nightsticks. I thought for a moment that my man was still on the plane, waiting to spring his trap on the next leg of the flight, down to Houston. Hijacking a plane on its way to Houston made more terrorist sense than hijacking it over New Jersey...
...station signs you see by the highway all the time, at the eastern edge of Gallup, New Mexico, when the girl picked me up. It was about nine o'clock. Thursday morning, August 14. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back...