Word: achkan
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...Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
Back in Karachi from his U.S. visit, Camel Driver Bashir Ahmad was a changed man. Bashir, whose customary costume used to be baggy salwar pants and a sweaty turban, now swanked around town in a spiffy achkan (a knee-length formal coat) and karakul cap, saw would-be visitors by appointment only. Saddest of all, Bashir is a camel driver no more. Awaiting delivery of a truck given him by his U.S. host, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Bashir has leased his camel and cart to a relative...
...word-strewn way he shook a multitude of hands, graced a dozen receptions, closeted himself a dozen times with dozens of officials, dined with Eleanor Roosevelt, lunched with Dag Hammarskjold, raised his goblet of orange juice in dozens of toasts, changed the tiny, ubiquitous rose in his ubiquitous achkan dozens of times...
Escorted to the White House by Vice President Richard Nixon, Nehru, dressed in his customary achkan, high-buttoned coat and salwars (jodhpur-like trousers), jauntily shook hands with Mamie and the President. Said Ike, just back from an 18-day vacation: "It's a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this land-to this house." Next day Ike and Nehru set out to talk in private at the President's Gettysburg farm-which Ike and Mamie had heretofore stubbornly refused to use as headquarters for state visitors...
Suitably clad in resplendent attire, the world's two great high-wire artists met last week in Belgrade. Clad in gleaming white jodhpurs and close-fitting achkan (three-quarter length jacket) of cinnamon homespun. India's arch-equilibrist Jawaharlal Nehru had come to return a visit paid him last winter by Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, a man even more skilled at walking the tightrope of neutralism. There was no real business to be transacted between them, but at least the two could compare notes and talk about their favorite topic-advantageous coexistence...