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...intervening weeks he will need one decent suit (perhaps), such light wear as khaki wash pasts and this cool jackets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Europe's Pitfalls Full of Excess Baggage | 6/9/1950 | See Source »

...made a dramatic contrast. The Emperor was young (then 32), plump, clean-shaven, bland-faced, fond of snappy Western sport clothes. Ho was aging (55), slight (hardly 5 ft. tall), goat-bearded, steelyeyed, usually seen in a frayed khaki tunic and cloth slippers. Ho Chi Minh, too, had gone to France for education. As a young man, he had been sent into exile by the French police of Indo-China because of his family's nationalist agitation. His father and a brother went to political prison for life. A sister received nine years of hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The New Frontier | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...proper appearance. During the war, when he owned a string of nightclubs, he wore a ten-gallon hat, a sharply draped zoot suit, and numerous rings. More recently he has assumed the role of owner of a modest fishing fleet and prefers a fisherman's sweater and khaki trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood & Plunder | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Keeping with his "start from scratch" policy, Jordan also announced that his squad this fall will substitute khaki whipcord pants for the black satin trousers worn by Art Valley's teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Hopes Spring Emphasis on Fundamentals Will Pay Off in Fall | 5/9/1950 | See Source »

...early afternoon on election day, only a few people hurried to the polls along the palm-shaded streets of Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths who lounged ominously outside; they were members of the 1,500-strong "special police" hired by provincial Governor Rafael Lacson to make sure that the election would turn out the way he wanted it. Police carried off ballot boxes to his home an hour before the polls closed; some ballots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The Lonely Election | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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