Word: homburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French-type wines, cheese-type spreads and lettuce-type salads are OUT. ¶ A 190 SL Mercedes-Benz is IN but not so far IN as a 1916 Fierce-Arrow; waving at another Mercedes is OUT. Wearing a checkered sports cap will get your parking permit canceled; wearing a Homburg will cause comment...
...Nikita Sergeevich, I salute you on American soil," said the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. last week-and there he was. There on American soil was Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There...
Gromyko, "the world's highest-ranking errand boy," arrived at the opening session wearing, of all things, a Homburg. Hamming for the cameras, the dour old disher-upper of cold-war epithets raised the Homburg and waved, and he cracked a certain smile as he posed with his East Germans at his elbow. (Actually, at least three of the six East Germans, including Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz, are Soviet citizens who spent years in Russian exile, came back to Germany with the Red armies.) Taking his turn in the chair next day. Gromyko pressed for admitting Poland and Czechoslovakia...
Foster Dulles greeted his welcomers, Vice President Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, aboard Columbine, then emerged smiling, grey Homburg clamped on head, looking tanned but thin. He had a mock shoving match with Nixon at the top of the ramp to see who would make the descent first; they came down together, still jostling. Said Dulles into microphones at the bottom of the ramp: "I feel pretty good...
Trim in a charcoal grey suit, black loafers and grey Homburg, Berlin's muscular Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. bounded down the steps of the plane from Ottawa last weekend before Washington's photographers could get their cameras aimed. Brandt and his pretty, blonde wife were met by State Department Berlin Expert Eleanor Lansing Dulles, whose brother John Foster had just flown off to confer with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer about Brandt's Russia-menaced city. Said Brandt: "I will tell my friends in the U.S. about free Berlin . . . You can rely on the people of the city...