Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most comfortable because they breathe, allowing perspiration to evaporate. No one any longer laughs at "snuggies," those sturdy thigh-length undertrousers that Grandma used to wear. Fur has begun to shed its politically uncool image (the American fur industry does not use pelts from endangered species such as leopard and baby seal), because "it's an organic, renewable, nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks, boots made from sealskin and caribou, and fur parkas. And down is up everywhere. At many...
...also disclosed that 17 people had been arrested on espionage charges last year. Most of these were suspected East German agents. Six, including Haas, were KGB operatives. A pair of Soviet agents based in Frankfurt were charged with stealing the plans for the firing mechanism of the West German Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 tanks...
Sporting a tribal headdress and wearing a leopard-skin cloak over a rainbow-hued tunic, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia moved into his official residence two weeks ago. Accompanied by a ululating crowd of followers, Bishop Abel Muzorewa rode in an ox-drawn cart to the stately white mansion -renamed from Independence House to Dzimbahwe (House of Chiefs)-that for 15 years was occupied by Ian Douglas Smith. The scene raised unsettling questions about Muzorewa's month-old multiracial government: Is it really more than an African show masking the continuation of effective white power? Is there...
Spotting the Wrong "Leopard...
...armored vehicle pictured in your article on West Germany [June 11] is not a "Leopard," nor is it a tank. It is a Marder mechanized infantry combat vehicle, probably the best vehicle of its kind in the West...