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...officers and Chief Petty Officers, the choice is made form the blue service dress with white caps, white service dress, khaki working uniform, and slate gray working uniform if available. When khaki or slate gray is worn, the blouse may be removed indoors. Garrison caps must be the same color as the uniform worn...
...Department of Military Science and Tactics. Only disturbing element in the picture is obvious to those who have observed recent Naval R.O.T.C. drills. Leaving Memorial Hall shortly after 2 o'clock, the block-long column of blue-coats should pass down Massachusetts Avenue just as the first khaki units attempt to 'go ashore' from the NTS quadrangle...
...many signs that Britain was swinging leftward. If this trend was really fundamental, no one speech-however great-could permanently halt it. But, after the speech, Winston Churchill's domestic intentions were clear: he proposed to drive the Tory chariot right through the war to a straight coalition, khaki-elected, postwar government, dragging Liberal and Labor defectives willy-nilly. Whether, now 68, he hoped to retain his personal ascendancy after the war was beside the point (he had said: "I have no personal ambitions"). But that Winston Churchill, the world statesman, was cannily bolstering his political base at home...
From around the U.S. came overwhelming evidence that the khaki-mad "victory girl" was a worse menace than the prostitute...
...completes his first year in Australia. Just twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...