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...white cloud like a sash...
...greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined cloak, stepped out of a sleek green and black Rolls-Royce and entered the church to begin the ceremonies...
...TIME, March 7, 1955). For Tokyo, what else, but a kimono? Arriving at the base ment of the Shirokiya department store, where a crowd of Japanese were already straining at the wire barrier, Mathieu stripped, donned a loose, flowing blue-and-white yukata. girded himself with a black waist sash, topped off with a red hachimaki wound round his head...
...None of the six is doing any public campaigning-contemptuously called futurismo in Mexico-but behind closed doors all are hard at work. In bars, coffee shops and government offices last week, Mexicans were giving long odds that one of the six will, before long, wear the presidential sash...
...Nicaragua fell on Tacho's sons even before their father's death. Plump, self-effacing Luis, 34, who by grace of a push from his father was First Designate (Vice President), took on Tacho's executive duties and-after Tacho died-the blue-and-white sash of office. West Point-educated Anastasio Jr. ("Tachito"), 32, commander of the 4,100-man Guardia National, jailed something like 3,000 suspected enemies of the regime, personally tested many of them with a newly imported lie detector,*soon freed all but 300. He unearthed no plot-but the arrests doubtless...