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...appear everywhere, in all sorts of styles and at all sorts of places. Some hang from the shoulders like farmer's overalls; others hug the hips like an Italian gigolo, or stick to the thighs as if the wearer had just emerged from a shower. In denim and khaki, they go to student protests and love-ins; in lace, they go to dinner and the theater; in twill and flannel, they even go to the office...
...Cover: Dimensional collage by Dennis Wheeler. A yeoman three in the Naval Reserve, Graphics Designer Wheeler chose ribbons* for his symbolic serviceman in khaki that range over four wars-World War I, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. He is well aware that no one man could have won them all. "Grouped together," he says, "they stand for valor." Carefully examined, they also say something else. Since his cover figure represents a military Establishment under attack, Navy Man Wheeler decided to slip in a nautical signal for trouble. On shipboard, that would be the ensign flying upside down...
Byzantine Labyrinth. In The Valley of Bones (the seventh novel), Nick Jenkins was an officer in a Welsh regiment training for the invasion. Now he has been transferred to the offices of the British general staff in Whitehall. In that bureaucratic maze, Powell's khaki characters may seem less military than dilatory. But anyone who has inhabited the Byzantine labyrinths of noncombat wartime staff headquarters will recognize the wry truth of Powell's picture of intrigue, futility and boredom...
...Willy-Nilly. "We want to converse," the retired general said somewhat nervously, standing in khaki army uniform behind his desk. Velasco praised the U.S. as "a just nation" and suggested that "immoral companies" were the real barrier keeping the two countries apart. How would the spread be resolved, he was asked, between the $120 million that the IPC is asking for its expropriated properties and the $54 million that Peru up to now has been prepared to pay? "Courtappointed appraisers will decide what the property is worth." Was the $690 million that Peru insists it is owed by IPC subject...
Nearly 20 newsmen and photographers flocked around a Viet Cong flag set up in the middle of the field for last week's meeting; the U.S. command had flown only four newsmen to the site. The main negotiator for the Viet Cong, a man in floppy hat and khaki fatigues without insignia, had brought along rattan stools, and he motioned to the American delegation, which had brought its own metal folding chairs, to sit down-most likely in the hope of producing pictures to be played against the Paris dispute over seating arrangements. After all, if the U.S. would...