Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying a yellow hatbox, jumped out of the waiting car and got into Eden's car. As the door closed, Clarissa Eden opened the hatbox, took out a small cushion and tucked it behind her husband's head. From a following car, newsmen could see Eden...
...fourth man, Greg Stone '58, staged a stunt with Charlie Batterman, M.I.T. diving coach. The varsity diver made his entrance during a Hungarian diving exhibition. Suddenly, as a diver poised to execute a "three summersault half twister," the sport coat-clad clown pushed his way through the audience onto the pool deck. "You're too small to do such dives. Let me try!" protested Stone. He did. Sportcoat, tie, Stone and all plumeted into the water
Civilianizing. "What a way to treat the navy!" cried London's jingoist tabloid Daily Sketch. A Daily Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...
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...
...Milwaukee, when police arrested her for shoplifting, learned after a brief search that she was stark naked under her coat, 23-year-old Lois Johnson explained to a matron that she wore only the coat because she didn't have a clean dress...