Imran wore a gold-colored achkan, a knee-length coat for formal occasions, and white pants, called salwar.

General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic.

But along his word-strewn way he shook a multitude of hands, graced a dozen receptions, closeted himself a dozen times with dozens of officials, dined with Eleanor Roosevelt, lunched with Dag Hammarskjold, raised his goblet of orange juice in dozens of toasts, changed the tiny, ubiquitous rose in his ubiquitous achkan dozens of times.

By the time the press was through with Columbia's newest doctor�who wore a black wool achkan under his academic gown�Nehru was as wilted as the red rose in his buttonhole.

He was dressed in the usual upcountry Indian style, in a long coat or Achkan which reached well below his knees and fluttered in the breeze.