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...though many a New Englander followed them, Portland persisted in developing a tone of its own. In 1851, for instance, the stumps in downtown streets were whitewashed to keep late (and often unsteady) pedestrians from tripping over them. An early Portland matron startled the populace with a carriage robe made of the breast feathers of 144 canvasback ducks. And Portland's pioneer St. Charles Hotel boasted a lock on every door and a hand-knitted wrapper on every chamber...
This year, for the second time in his life, Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Dressed in a ceremonial robe of unstitched white cloth, the earnest, personable chief of Egypt's military junta left Cairo by air with an entourage of 75. In Jidda, the Arabian seaport by which most pilgrims enter, the Naguib party was met by Crown Prince Saud and eleven emirs, all sons of ancient, wily King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...
Then, before the image of the Virgin in a little chapel, Clare exchanged her bright dress for a rough wool robe, her jeweled belt for a knotted rope, her high headdress for a black veil. Francis himself cropped off her golden hair...
...Appiah, 32, African law student and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. When they emerged from St. John's Wood Church and paused for photographs, she in her mother's pearl silk gown, he in the crimson, yellow, black and green ceremonial robe of his tribe, they looked the picture of happy newlyweds. After honeymooning in Paris, they plan to live for a while at her London flat before settling down on the Gold Coast...
...Story of Demetrius (20th Century-Fox); a sequel to The Robe...