Word: sashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past two decades, per capita income has doubled to almost $600 a year. Yet most of Mexico's small farmers, as well as the country's 3,000,000 Indians, still live on less than $100 a year. Last week, as the green-white-and-red sash of office was draped over his right shoulder during inaugural ceremonies in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, incoming President Luis Echeverria Alvarez pledged that his first order of business would be to help those people start digging...
...brief swearing-in ceremony, outgoing President Eduardo Frei removed from his shoulder the red, white and blue striped Banda de Bernardo O'Higgins-the symbol of presidential power. Allende, the sash draped over his own shoulder, exchanged an abrazo with Frei, who then left, according to tradition, by a rear exit. He was greeted by the most prolonged ovation of the week, evidence that he might have easily won re-election had he not been barred from succeeding himself. But the rest of the day belonged to Allende...
...longer one talks the clearer it becomes that Ulstermen are fighting one another not over the future or even the present but the past. Like many of his friends, Ball has the upraised red hand tattooed on a forearm and is fiercely proud of the sash of his Loyal Orange Order lodge. "It's handed down for generations," he says. "My father belonged, and he handed his sash down to my elder brother." Ball says he would not shrink from the showdown he fully expects - even though "if I was to get shot and die tonight, Maureen would...
...bride wears Navaho earrings and a rayon huipil embroidered with paste pearls. In her hands she carries Steppenwolf. The groom looks dashing in a white manta shirt with brass buttons and a red sash to hold up his droopy drawers...