Word: leatherizing
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...after a leisurely stroll through the wooded grounds of Khrushchev's dacha near Moscow that Nikita took Fidel on a shopping tour at the new Moskva department store. Fidel paused at the leather goods display, asked about a belt, but quickly confessed: "I forgot to bring my money." Cracked Khrushchev, who doles out $1,000,000 a day to keep Cuba's chaotic economy from collapsing entirely: "I can guarantee his credit...
Reclaimed Boylston Hal still smells lightly of natural wood pancling, leather upholstery, and new rugs, but these scents will eventually be blown out of the building by an elaborate air control system that attacks both from within and without. Separate units dispersed inside give each floor an independent wind and rumble capability. Mounted on the roof are four propellers, which may not be World War II Air Force surplus, yet reproduce the effects of a B-17 warming up in the attic. They impart to the lower floors a pulse beat of a steady thirty-five, which quickens...
...grumpily conceded that he was out of the running. "My putting stinks," he said. "I'll be glad when this is over." So would a lot of other golfers. The weather turned sour, and for five hours it poured rain. Cool and cautious, Nicklaus changed his leather glove five times in 18 holes, slashed a 74 that-bad as it was-was enough to give him the third round lead...
...soccer player known as Dondinho. Pelé was expelled from the fourth grade for cutting classes to play in barefoot futebol games, using a sock stuffed with rags for a ball. He stole peanuts from railroad cars, roasted them and sold them to get the money for a leather soccer ball. His first job. as a cobbler's apprentice, earned him $2 a month. At eleven. Pelé was spotted by ex-Player Waldemar de Brito. who taught him the game's intricacies, and got him a contract with Santos. The first time he played. Santos...
...leather industry that supplies the shoemen cannot afford to be unconcerned; 15 years ago they lost practically all of their leather sole business to synthetic Neolite. "If Du Pont succeeds in getting a few high-priced distributors to market synthetic shoes," says Boston Tanner Emery Huvos, "then we're licked. The prestige will get them the volume market, and that's what they're looking for." To try to prevent that, Leather Industries of America has doubled this year's advertising budget to $2,000,000 to tout the virtue of good old-fashioned leather...