Word: topcoats
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...aircraft's forward hatch stepped Dwight Eisenhower, wearing a grey topcoat and a grey felt hat. The weather omens were inauspicious as he stepped lightly down the ramp to begin his historic 19-day tour of eleven nations. But with his evident ease and friendship, he carried his own omens. He doffed his hat in the rain as he shook hands with Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Premier Antonio Segni, doffed it again as a band played short versions of the U.S.'s Star-Spangled Banner and Italy's Inno di Mameli...
...dusk fell across Ankara, as smoke from thousands of homes laid a foglike pall over the city, Ike's mission moved toward a high point. He rode out of town again to lay a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum. There he shed his topcoat in the chill evening air, laid a wreath of white and red carnations, stood with head bowed. So many flashbulbs flashed in his face that he seemed a bit blinded. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" he said to a Turkish official as they walked away...
...north wind sliced through his home town, and the thermometer stood at 41°, the President of the U.S. removed his hat and topcoat, and stepped up to address the spectators: "Whenever I return here," said he, "I invariably sense, in these surroundings, an atmosphere of simplicity and peace ... My mind goes back nostalgically to the conditions I knew as a boy. We did not then know the term 'world tension'; life was peaceful, serene and happy...
...nearby building on Vorovskovo Street, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Langelle produced his diplomatic card, claimed his diplomatic immunity from arrest. He demanded the right to call his embassy. The five Russian agents laughed, told him that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then one Russian searched Langelle's topcoat, claimed to find a notebook, which Langelle had never seen before. Sure enough, when the Russian applied a handy chemical solution to its pages, he found invisible ink notes on Soviet secrets. The ploy: the notebook looked like prefabricated evidence for a sure-to-convict espionage trial against Langelle...
...sneak thief's fancy was tickled by a package of phonograph records, a man's hat and topcoat that reposed in a car parked on Chicago's South Side. The crook grabbed the loot and ran, little knowing that he had been seen by his victim-none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time...