Word: shetland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of "G" entry, two imposing preppy types were talking to a pair of Summer School lovelies. One of the males was unmistakeably a Princeton. He wore the traditional dark gray shetland sweater, button-down shirt, English-style gray flannels and cordovans. The other person was attired in white varsity-letter sweater, turned inside out, of course, freshly pressed khakis, white athletic socks, saddle shoes and crew-cut. "Probably a Yale," thought...
Completing these high-fashion ensembles is the new Flat-top hat in fuzzy Shetland-finished felt, with a narrow brim and a sporty taper running up to an absolutely flat summit. There's even a bow in the back...
...scene as effectively as he hoped they would. With Ike and their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched by a full platoon of sharp-eyed cameramen and reporters. Lounging patiently at the barn door was Tony, a black-and-white Shetland pony, hitched up to a two-wheeled, wicker-basket cart...
...Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug a 7-oz. "ladies'-size" Budweiser bottle...
...View. On swept the shadow at 3,000 m.p.h. The Shetland Islands were covered with storm clouds, but southern Britain was reasonably clear, and millions of Britons saw the partial eclipse. Most spectacular view of totality was from 21 Canberra jet bombers of the R.A.F., which flew so high (50,000 ft.) that the shadow looked like an oval black shape in the cloud deck far below...