Word: turbaning
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Bandwagons in Mayfair. Unity, if it comes at all, will have to be achieved by agreement among the colorful chief delegates: tall, aristocratic Alhaji Ahmadu, the Islamic and potent Sardauna of Sokoto, an Arabian Nights figure in a billowing green turban and red velvet robe, whose Moslem Hausas consider the pagans of the South no better than savages; boyish, chubby-faced Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, one of the shrewdest political minds in Africa and an ardent champion of regional self-government for his own people; scholarly and ambitious Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite...
...minute sessions with Secretary of State Dulles, and a one-hour session, along with Dulles, with Eisenhower at the White House. Ike and Diem got another chance to talk at a formal dinner at the Viet Nam embassy, where Host Diem, dressed in traditional Vietnamese costume-black turban, white trousers, a purple-and-black knee-length coat-also had a chat with another Ike visitor, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery...
...entranced through a whole day before Rembrandt's The Bridal Couple. Even Picasso, that great imitator, once paid Rembrandt the supreme compliment of confessing one failure. Beginning an etching, he says, "I started to doodle. It became a Rembrandt. I even made another one right away, with his turban, his furs, his eye-you know what I mean, his elephant's eye. I'm still working on this plate to get his blacks. You don't get them right away...
...Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, to come soothe the anger of India's trade unionists. Reuther returned to the U.S. last week after a shining fortnight's good-will mission. He had sat in as a drummer at a village folk dance, got dolled up in a turban, been festooned with countless flowers, made 118 speeches. In a Calcutta auto plant, he had eaten lunch with the workers instead of in the bosses' dining room, explaining, "Hell, I wouldn't eat with them in the States. Why should I eat with them here?" Onetime...
...white turban and blossom-festooned, Tennessee's wide-ranging, head-geared Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, probing his way rapidly around the world, settled down for a brief moment in the northern Indian town of Ratangarh. chuckled admiringly at the local fruits of the U.S.-India technical cooperation program...