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...swore simply to "protect and insure protection of the Constitution." Outgoing President Miguel Alemán turned over the green, white and red sash of office. Ruiz Cortines thereupon became the 48th President of Mexico. His inauguration address was low-voiced and prosaic, his only gesture a finger pointed straight in the air. "We will open a new era in the history of Mexico," he said...
...five-minute ceremony in Santiago's Congressional Hall of Honor last week, General Carlos Ibanez formally donned the broad red-white-&-blue presidential sash. Thus, 21 years after Chileans overthrew his dictatorship, the general returned to office as the republic's constitutional chief, chosen in a free and fair election...
...sure to attract such a visitor. He comes thundering down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting. Then, chances are, he will turn without a word or a sign, and gallop back across the valley and up the hill to tell his people...
Before the eyes of diplomats, generals and other men of distinction gathered in Quito's ornate Sucre National Theater last week, Manhattan-born Galo Plaza Lasso took off his yellow, blue and red presidential sash. For the first time since 1924, a constitutionally elected President of Ecuador had served out his full four-year term and was passing the emblem of office to a constitutionally elected successor. The sash had fitted husky ex-Athlete (University of California) Plaza a lot better than it fitted bony Scholar (international law, political theory) Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, Ecuador's new chief...
...ribbon bow to bind my hair, If I had a fancy sash, my own true love would think me fair...