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Princess Elizabeth was to get her first honorary degree next week. The University of London decided the proper thing would be a Bachelor of Music. Meanwhile, a tartan sash over her white gown, she did all right in the dance department, with a fine Highland reel at the Royal Canadian Ball...
Carmine & Scarlet. The campaign had been frenzied, but on voting day there was little trouble for the 70,000 carabinieri and crack police mobilized to keep order. Near the Vatican young Communists wearing scarlet neckerchiefs eyed with composure the carmine sash of 95-year-old Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he cast his vote. King Umberto, after long discussions with his advisers, decided to vote. Queen Marie-José had to wait in line for half an hour...
Swept into office by the biggest majority in modern Argentine history (apparently 304 electoral votes to 72), Presidentelect Juan Peron lost no time getting into action. Though he had still to take the oath and receive the sash of office, he bossed the Government that last week agreed to send some food to Europe (but little for UNRRA), released a blandly conciliatory denial of the U.S. State Department's Blue Book charges, and disavowed all desire of dominating its weaker neighbors...
...higher altitudes from Veracruz, where horsemen and fishing peasants, known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised, often risqué and not always intelligible love lyrics...
Kyoto had an exhibit of fine embroidery. The prize went to an obi (sash) from the Nishijin textile cooperative. Its price...