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...Perdu, come right back at him with your A.P. scores (fours are dull), or your knowledge of physical chemistry. Lying is permissable, because no one will ever know the difference if you can effectively fake it. Make pronouncements about everyghing. Wear a log of preppie clothes; Locoste shirts and khaki pants are recommended. Topsiders are passe. Scoff at naive enthusiasm with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically refust to be excited or amused by anything with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically rufuse to be excited or amused by anything except yourself. Potential hazard: everyone will have your guts. In many cases...
...most popular Democrat in the country, yet he sometimes seems strangely isolated. One day last week he stood alone in the kitchen of his house in McLean, Va., turning a couple of steaks in the broiler. His red-checked shirt was open to the waist of his khaki slacks, revealing a thick mat of hair, now graying. The huge house echoed with memories, but now it was empty and still. Kennedy's wife had been living in Boston, away from the family for more than a year, and his children were at Cape Cod for the summer...
...Czech girls sported distinctive red and white jumpers; the Poles, whose national colors the Czechs had appropriated, came decked out in red and khaki. There was color (and congestion) aplenty in Havana last week, as some 18,500 young leftists from 140 countries, attended by 1,500 journalists and 13,000 other visitors, crammed into the Cuban capital for the eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students. The eight-day, $60 million propaganda orgy is socialism's ideological equivalent of a global Scout jamboree. This year, as the festival was held for the first time in the Western Hemisphere...
...rather than the ballot box. Only two of the continent's Latin nations (Colombia and Venezuela) are Western-style democracies; Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile remain under more or less strict military control. In a few countries, however, the armed forces have been trying to ease their khaki embrace-so far with mixed results...
...Agudat Israel Party to amend Israel's conscription laws, thereby making it easier for Orthodox Jewish women to gain exemption from the draft. Orthodox rabbis believe that women should not serve in the armed forces, since they interpret the prohibition against men's clothing to include the khaki trousers and the UZI submachine guns issued to Israel's female conscripts. The law now requires that women serve for two years and men for three, beginning...