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...loss. Determined to help restore la gloire, he won admission to the prestigious St.-Cyr military academy, where he stood out for his arrogance and scholarship as well as for his height (6 ft. 5 in.). As an officer in the late 1920s, he insisted on wearing his beret tilted unconventionally to the right, and championed the superiority of tanks to fixed defenses, an unfashionable notion in the France of the Maginot Line. When his homeland was invaded in 1940 De Gaulle, then 49, put his theories into action: he threw together an armored division and won two important battles...
...Puerto Rican Olympic basketball team. But dreams, like pounds, like years, slip by faster than luge racers flip from their sleds. Finally last year, he says, "I got the name of the president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee out of the New York Times. They sent me a beret. The rest of my opening ceremonies uniform is off the shelf." Now the dream is close enough so that Tucker can reach for it. Though even as he does, it will be behind him. "I'll carry the flag," he says brightly, but adds ruefully...
...victim described his assailant as a Black male, 18-19 years old, with a thin build and short hair, wearing a black leather jacket and white pants with a navy beret Police searched the area for suspects with-out success. Police would not say yesterday what type of weapon, if any, was used by the assailant...
...opening ceremonies, that lovely Olympic parade, dress may be formal or informal, and even ceremonial, beret to burnoose. For the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, the American athletes came as Western ranch hands in ten-gallon hats. Next summer in Los Angeles, they will come as athletes. After a public vote, or at least a poll of department-store shoppers, the U.S. Olympic Committee elected last week to introduce the 1984 team in sweats and visors, baggy but bright. Some 700 athletes and coaches will be supplied 35 mix-and-match garments by Levi Strauss & Co. The warmup suits...
...Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody has found a French cowherd. Actually he is a Puerto Rican waiter, but in beret, smock and scarf, and with rouge on his round cheeks to suggest a history of drinking wine for breakfast, he looks as French as Pierre...