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When a Japanese Scout gave Ford a neckerchief, the President tried to put it on. The scarf got hung up on Ford's big dome, and for a second the little guy did not know just what to do. Ford finally got the neckerchief in place and leaned down and took the boy's hand; that "Thank you" from one Scout to another would have melted steel...
...much of a normal, natural life as we can," Farah and the Shah set up a special palace school with 45 other children. She has no great love for protocol, often eludes palace security and slips out for a walk in a nearby park, inadequately disguised in scarf and sunglasses. Although her wardrobe formerly came from European couturiers, she now mostly buys clothes made in Iran from local fabrics. She has also donated her choicest jewels to Iranian museums. "In the world today, the way I live and the way I work," she says, "I don't feel like...
...walk briskly with eyes averted--just like everyone else. I scrambled against traffic in the Square--just like everyone else. I learned how to meticulously drape a sweater around my neck in the fall and when winter set in, I discovered that I could don my woolen hat, scarf and mittens without feeling like I was dressing up for Halloween. After all, who needs mittens in Southern California unless you're skiing on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain...
...enough to hold fifty practice balls lumbered over from the putting green. He was wearing one of the insufferably hot powder blue jump suits that are mandatory for caddies at Pleasant Valley, a white Houston Open golf cap, and, beneath his cap, a blue and white polka-dotted scarf that gave him a sort of piratical appearance. He looked at me rather suspiciously for a moment, then introduced himself as "Killer," and told me he remembered caddying for me back in Houston when I was about "this high...
...auspicious moment decreed by the astrologers, the King draped the royal five-colored scarf of Bhutan's Kings over his shoulders in the presence of the country's chief lama, the Jey Khempo. No other hands than theirs are ever allowed to touch the sacred silk. In an earlier ceremony, the King had already been given the Bhutanese crown, a silver-and-silk hat embroidered with three skulls and topped by the head of a raven, which is supposed to protect him from harm throughout his reign...