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...show her all dressed up in its TV musical My Name Is Barbra late in April and marched her off to Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman for fitting and filming. She tried on a $15,000 Somali leopard coat-and liked it! Next came a mink-lined velvet robe. "I used to hate mink but now I appreciate it for its solidarity," cooed Barbra, adding that sable is solid too. Before the kookie crumbled completely, she slipped into a good old "poor girl" sweater, with a great swishy white hat that reminded her "a little of the Mad Hatter...
...Malcolm Little-Malcolm X-John Doe, he was buried as Al Hajj Malik Shabazz, the name he earned in 1964 by making his pilgrimage to Mecca and being received as a true believer. He wore the white robe that signified his faith. In the four days before his burial, more than 20,000 persons, almost all Negroes, filed past his body as it lay on view in a glass-topped, wrought-copper casket. Following Muslim custom, when Malcolm was buried in suburban Westchester's Ferncliff Cemetery, his head was to the east, toward Mecca...
...Attassi Case, which started as just another televised Damascus spy thriller to the accompaniment of John Philip Sousa marches, came to a jarring finale last week. In the chill of dawn, naturalized U.S. Citizen Farhan Attassi, 37, was hanged in Damascus' Al Marjah Square. Attached to the white robe customary for a condemned criminal was a large poster stating the verdict. For seven hours the limp body swayed on the gibbet, watched by curious crowds, before it was cut down and taken away for burial. On the same day, Attassi's cousin and alleged accomplice in spying...
...over. Precisely 147 days after Katzenbach, 43, became the U.S.'s Acting Attorney General, a stand-in for Bobby Kennedy, he received a call asking him and his wife Lydia to have dinner at the White House. President Johnson arose from his sickbed and, wearing pajamas and a robe, supped with Lady Bird and the Katzenbachs in the family quarters, told Katzenbach that next day he would name him Attorney General for real...
Wearing maroon pajamas and a navy-blue silk robe, the President was bustled out of the White House shortly before 2:30 one morning, 14 hours after he took the oath, helped into a Navy ambulance and whisked off to Bethesda Naval Hospital. He was suffering from a heavy cough and chest pains. Since he had suffered a nearfatal heart attack ten years ago, he was worried. But by midmorning, the President's doctor announced that nothing serious ailed him-little more than a case of too much inauguration...