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...Choice. By sacking Glubb, Hussein made himself King before his subjects in fact as well as in title. Overnight he was the hero of the Palestinians. Newspapers hailed him as "the new Sala-din." When he toured the refugee centers, frenzied crowds tore off his red-checkered headdress and bore him through the streets shouting: "Long live Hussein-with his sword we will go to war!" Legionnaires shouted: "Back to Palestine!" "It was the first time in the history of the Hashemite family that one of them stood up to the British," said a former Hussein critic. Only some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Boy King | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...York State Fair in Syracuse, Michigan's Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams smiled into news cameras after Iroquois Indians made him a blood brother, crowned him with a plumed headdress and handed him a small pillow picturing him on his way from Lansing, Mich, to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Francisco they give psychiatric advice to troubled Negroes and Chinese. The yearly illustrated bulletin that reports the departure of a new detail of missionary sisters (last year's headline: FIFTY MORE IN FIFTY-FOUR) usually carries the photographs of young, remarkably handsome girls smiling under their black, pointed headdress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Laborare Est Orare | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither explanation nor apology. Host Cuevas himself received his guests as a timeless "God of Nature" in cloth of gold, a scarlet cape and a headdress of gilded grapes and ostrich plumes in the full beam of a glaring spotlight. "I can't see you; oh, this light is terrible," he cried to one couple as his own limelight blinded him. "You look completely black to me." The couple whispered an explanation : they were dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make-Work Project | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Best of all, the Turkish government has just invited Eyuboglu and his wife, who is also a painter, to design basma-printed cloth often worn as a headdress by Moslem women-for production by the Turkish textile industry. This project, says Eyuboglu, "will make art available to thousands of the people; it is multiple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brilliance on the Bosporus | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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