Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow), ingyi (short-waisted, high-necked jacket) and longyi (skirt). Improbably, for a potentate from a faraway land, he came bearing thoughtful gifts: a pint of his blood for a U.S. hospital; a silver gong suspended between ivory elephant tusks for the President; a check for $5,000 for distressed families of G.I.'s killed or incapacitated in the liberation of his country, Burma, during World...
...American people in the President. The phenomenon was given sharp illustration last week as Mr. Eisenhower toured through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, meeting the people, eating barbecued chicken, fishing in New England streams, and being plied with gifts of heifers, chickens, trees, shirts, boots, a red knit cap, a chain saw and a sculptured tablet of granite. As he moved through dairy country, where his Administration's farm program had sharply cut federal subsidies, farmers stood by the roadside and cheered. At the hamlets, at the intersections and on farm mailboxes, there were homemade signs that read: "Welcome...
...style-conscious Air Force, which has introduced to U.S. military, fashions such items as lapels on the blouse (replacing World War I's choker collar), slacks (replacing boots, spurs and breeches) and the "50-mission" cap, last week moved on once more...
...fail to note the rigid and extensive security measures, the number of hefty Amazons armed with Tommy guns, and the general attitude, "ask no questions and expect no answers." Headed westward again, Nehru stopped off at Leningrad. There, soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing a Gandhi cap was mistaken for Nehru and overwhelmed by a flower-brandishing mob who almost trampled him to death trying to kiss him. But there were no Indian newsmen around when Nehru got his ace view of the week: a peek at a Soviet atomic center...
When Isaac Emanuelovich Babel was ten years old, he saw his father kneel in the mud before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life...