Word: batik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black gown and ling cigarette-holder, a refugee from a Charles Addams cartoon. The Duke's wrestler sports a checkered jacket and straw hat. Le Beau, complete with pseudo-French accent, wears white shoes and a monocle, a tie pin and boutonniere. the first lord is in a batik-jacketed tuxedo, and wears a black eye-patch out of a Hathaway shirt ad. And Touchstone has a patchwork jacket and pink shirt...
...over the world the congress drew 13,000 delegates (previous record abroad: London's 8,000 in 1955) ; the delegations ranged in size from one person (Israel, Jordan and Hungary) to 2,836 from the U.S. Rio had never seen such a cosmopolitan crowd; bare-shouldered Ghanaians and batik-clad Indonesians drew stares, while the eight delegates from the Soviet Union drew something more-a predictable blast from the Rev. Carl Mclntire. head of the Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, who accused the Baptists of providing a platform for Communist propaganda. Retorted Richmond's Theodore Floyd Adams...
...exhibition of Javanese art-beautiful hand-dipped batik cloth and finely worked silver-Sukarno smilingly asked Nikita, "Which would you like?" Growled Khrushchev: "I don't like anything, I don't like anything," but added grudgingly, "The workmanship is good." When Sukarno, nettled, tried to explain the intricate handwork involved, Khrushchev put him straight on the new industrialism: "They cost too much, not only in price but in human life. If we go on like this, there will be no progress. Machines, machines are what you need!" But he posed for photographers when Sukarno wrapped a sarong around...