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Postcards & Turtledoves. As the 278-year-old process* ended in the Holy City last week, Roman citizens had a field day with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...
...Unsightly Iraqi national headdress, resembling oversized U.S. Army fore-&-aft caps, known to Westerners as the only headgear a man can) leave on a Middl'e East hatrack without fear of theft...
...there was a renascence of sprightlier activity. In Los Angeles one Jim Moran, who had once sold an icebox to an Eskimo, was sitting on an ostrich egg. He wore a feather headdress, a pair of "hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...
...kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
...loinclothed subjects, King Ninji, chocolaty ruler of a stretch of New Guinea jungle, last week presented another royal scion-the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Britain's King George VI and Governor-General of Australia. The King wore a headdress of cassowary plumes fixed to tambu shells, from which dangled bits of wood and metal from a wrecked airplane...