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...front and center marched the regal, khaki-clad figure of Charles de Gaulle. At his side was Queen Frederika of Greece. And on either side of them were: King Baudouin of Belgium in army khaki; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, splendid in his decorations and chartreuse sash; West Germany's President Heinrich Lübke; Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal; Korea's President-elect General Park Chung Hee. They, along with 213 other world leaders, headed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, eight blocks away...
When he dons the sash of office Oct. 12, Illía promises an Argentina-first policy, renegotiating the contro versial foreign oil contracts made by Frondizi (see WORLD BUSINESS) and re-examining Argentina's monetary poli cies, now closely hewing to the austere line of the International Monetary Fund...
Bread & Water. This grim aspect of the holiday was bitterly marked by the Black Sash Organization, a handful of courageous white matrons, who oppose apartheid. Said their spokesman: "Family Day becomes a farce when so many of our African families are disrupted." Wearing their customary black sashes, members of the group went into retreat, sat in bare rooms on hard chairs for 24 hours of complete silence, eating only bread and water...
Following a high pageantry usually experienced only at Commencement, President Pusey transferred the Lowell tippit, a Master's traditional sash of authority, from Perkins' shoulder to that of his successor, Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. With this gesture, the 23 years of the Perkinsian Age ended and Lowell's third Mastership began...
When he donned Ecuador's presidential sash in November 1961. Carlos Julio Arosemena's chances of wearing it long seemed woefully slim. Of his country's last 20 Presidents, only three served full terms. He himself was the playboy offspring of a rich Guayaquil banker, and rode into the vice-presidency in 1960 on the coattails of President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. He got the top job after Velasco Ibarra proved powerless to curb runaway inflation and left-led strikes, and was turned out by the military. Once in office, Arosemena baffled his countrymen by his politics...