Word: headdressed
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...Reagan and Walter Mondale were among those invited who forgot to R.S.V.P., but nobody seemed to miss them. Pete Swider, from Hamtramck, Mich., vowed to eliminate crime by issuing federal credit cards to all 18-to 21-year-olds. Wearing a blue velour jogging suit and a gold feather headdress, Chief Rufus Thunderberg, a self-proclaimed Indian leader from Connecticut, worried about an imminent energy crisis. His solution: emergency methane production. Instead of distributing surplus cheese to the hungry, the Administration, according to Thunderberg, should provide baked beans. William Allen Camps warned that an enemy power has been tampering with...
...Windsors' attic must be quite a sight. Consider only the old hats Prince Charles, 35, must have tossed up there. At one public moment or another, he has gamely donned a cowboy hat and an Indian headdress. Just returned from a four-day visit to the Commonwealth state of Papua New Guinea, Charles has of course acquired yet another item for his collection of ethnic headgear. Upon his arrival at the tropical island of Manus, Charles was officially named...
...stolen items, two necklaces and a silk headdress, all decorated with silver coins, are valued at $800-$1000. Police Captain Jack Morse said there are no suspects in the case...
...helmet for 30 minutes can provide a half-day's relief. Self-conscious sufferers, Hinchliffe suggests, can "customize their helmets with headsets or Deely Bobbers." Some 535 HHHS have been sold in the U.K., and 100 in the U.S., where one costs $189 plus shipping. The spacy headdress, which has not yet received medical endorsement, may be particularly good news for hay fever victims who suffer side effects from standard drugs like antihistamines. They may have a silent summer, though; the dome makes conversation difficult...
...yards away, his celebrated choice for the capital's Independence Day concert, Wayne Newton, 41, hauled his sequined Las Vegas act out onto the Washington Mall. (One local radio station suggested that a two-drink minimum be imposed to make the entertainer feel more at home.) Doffing a headdress that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with his own version of Neil Diamond's America, which ended with a shameless appeal to Martin Luther King's memory as Newton intoned a snatch...