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...forces on both sides of the Korean War, the gaudier the officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained by the Sukhomlinov rule to prevail over the strutting dandy Adolf Hitler. Japan's high command surrendered in aiguillettes and swords; General Douglas MacArthur accepted in tieless khaki. The authors point out that shortly before the 1968 Tet offensive. American fashion experts had designated fastidiously uniformed General William Westmoreland as one of the best-dressed American men. But the Sukhomlinovian verdict on Viet Nam is a curt "data incomplete...
...virtual slave plantation in the 20th century. Cummins takes all kinds of errants and turns them into white-clad "rankers" who work or perish. Toiling from dawn to dusk, they move in a long line across the fields, supervised by a horseman in khaki and five unmounted "shotguns" (guards) who "push" the serfs along. At each corner of the field stands another guard, armed with a high-powered rifle. All the guards are convicts, the toughest at Cummins. Hated by rankers, the trusties are picked for meanness in order to keep them alive off duty. They are killers, armed robbers...
...sense it is. Thousands of voters have seen "Walkin' Lawton" in the flesh, clad in khaki pants, light blue shirt, scuffed ankle boots. Not easily tarred by the permissiveness brush, Chiles counters Cramer's tough law-and-order campaign with his own call for a crackdown on bombings...
Soldiers in their khaki uniforms shuttled in and out. Students trooped in from the countryside, commandeered to work in the munitions factories. A tide of refugees restlessly washed the streets, seeking sanctuary. Yet many of the ordinary routines of life persisted, and even some of life's small pleasures...
Three years ago, Daniel Schacht, an electronics consultant, turned up outside the Houston military induction center wearing a khaki Army shirt and World War II officer's cap. Outside the center, he performed in a piece of "guerrilla theater" meant to dramatize American brutality in Viet Nam. Schacht was convicted of violating federal law that forbids wearing a distinctive part of a military uniform in theatrical productions if the role "discredits" the military. Schacht was sentenced to six months in prison and a $250 fine...