Word: polkaing
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...right to put Scotty Reston on the cover (he has been my favorite columnist for years); it's all right to put polka dots on his necktie; but it's all wrong to smear them on his face and make him look as if he has leprosy...
Turning to the costumed Indonesians, Khrushchev playfully picked out a husky young man clad in the red polka-dot robes of the North Celebes, and tried a few wrestling holds on him to the delight of the crowd. Followed by Sukarno, Khrushchev climbed into the President's red Chrysler Imperial and drove to the vast Merdeka Palace through streets lined with 200,000 more people...
...Wearing a natty polka-dot sling around his right arm, bruised but unbroken in a 30-ft. fall from the hayloft of his Poolesville, Md. barn, Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse announced that he would be a candidate in the May 3 primary in the District of Columbia (nine delegate votes). Although he is already entered in the Oregon primary and may well run in Wisconsin, Morse knows he has no chance for the Democratic nomination. But he is bitterly opposed to Candidates John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey because of their votes last year for the Landrum-Griffin...
Speed Mad. At 7 a.m., in silk dressing gown and polka-dot pajamas, he padded down the hall of Laranjeiras Palace, his official Rio residence, to his one-chair barbershop for an hour-long ritual of shave, facial massage, manicure, interviews, English lessons, more phone calls. Ahead lay a morning of decisions: "I think you should get the Belo Horizonte-Brasilia highway ready by January instead of April. Why can't the contractors do it now and charge it to next year?" At 1:30 he ate a big lunch with his wife Sara and daughters Marcia and Maristela...
...sing the role of Minnie the barkeep. To help fill his cavernous outdoor stage, he hired a covered wagon and a troupe of horses from a 4-H club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down to prevent the set from blowing away in the waspish mountain winds that swirl into the amphitheater every evening...