Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clutching a snake-headed bamboo cane, a slender, bespectacled Asian in a double-breasted blue suit and a green felt hat arrived in Washington last week; his presence brought to 78 the number of diplomatic missions in the capital. Ourot R. Souvannavong, a 45-year-old jurist, is the first minister to the U.S. from the Oregon-sized, jungle-blanketed kingdom of Laos in French Indo-China...
...organ grinders of Mexico City are to be seen and heard from noon till midnight's last serenade. They work in pairs, taking turns toting the barrel, winding the crank and passing the hat. Their instruments, invariably German-made, are rented (for 5 pesos a day) from old Maestro Gilberto Lazaro, whose enormous, crumbling house in Tepito, the thieves' market, is the hub of the hurdy-gurdy business. Lazaro places the notes on the wood-and-wire cylinders of his organs, first mastering the tunes by listening to records, then beating them out on a piano...
...song called The Marshal's Daughter, renegade Indians, a mysterious masked rider, a cowboy quartet, dancing girls, rustlers on a rampage. Comedian-Producer Ken (Blackouts) Murray is intrepid enough to show up in front of the camera himself at one point as a riverboat entertainer sporting a high hat, checkered suit and gargantuan cigar...
...sword borrowed from an admiral especially invited for that purpose. Then dancing began. Martha swayed out a stately tune with Korean Ambassador Dr. You Chan Yang. The orchestra switched to It's a Great Day for the Irish, and Yang and Martha finished by stamping out the Mexican hat dance (Yang has been moving in U.N. circles a lot lately...
...money and sweat the U.S. must put into getting "the right airplane to the right place at the right time." In World War II, with the PSI Mustang, and in Korea, with the F-86 Sabre, it almost looked as though somebody had pulled a rabbit out of a hat. Says Dutch Kindelberger: "Nobody ever pulled a rabbit out of a hat without carefully putting one there in the first place...