Word: leatherizing
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Almost everything but the mannequins themselves seemed to have come off a ranch. Ponyskin and calf were favorites. Designer John Weitz cut a pair of pants out of saddle leather, lined a coat of the same fabric with a horse blanket. Adele Simpson put some of her models in outfits with matching boots, either knee-or ankle-height, all high-heeled. No one did anything with an armadillo...
...dazzling sunlight last week, 30,000 singing, dancing Africans gathered before Nairobi's Ministry of Works. A great roar went up as two solemn men emerged. One was Kenya's British Governor Malcolm MacDonald, resplendent in blue dress uniform. The other, wearing his customary leather jacket and beaded beanie, was burly Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the man who served seven years in jail as the convicted "manager" of the Mau Mau terrorists, and who only three years ago was denounced by the previous governor as "the leader to darkness and death...
...hotel operations on other islands. A low, sleek structure whose two long arms embrace a central lagoon, Coco Palms features local color. Bed-lamp shades are plastic copies of the feathered helmets kings once wore, bathroom basins consist of giant clamshells, and guests are called to meals by a leather-lunged islander blowing into a conch shell. Another Gus-lander development, the 22-month-old Hanalei Plantation, is situated on a promontory that was used as the set for the movie of South Pacific. It is designed for couples who will shell out $50 a day and be satisfied...
Christopher Plantin, a leather tooler of Antwerp, was making a late delivery one night in 1555 when thugs set upon him with swords and deeply pierced his shoulder. Thus crippled, Plantin had to turn to an easier and less muscular occupation; having made many leather bindings for books, he chose publishing. The same year he printed a small volume on etiquette called The Instruction of a Girl of Noble Birth-the first publication of what was to become the greatest printing house of the 16th and ryth centuries...
Seated nervously in a deep leather chair in the Adams House Junior Common Room, tie unfastened, jacket off, Paul Goodman, literary virtuoso, spoke yesterday as writer and critic to some 60 fascinated and sympathetic listeners...