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...past, the Saigonese could draw a feeling of security from the presence of foreign troops, no matter how much they may have despised and exploited them. There were white-hatted legionnaires, French paratroopers in red berets, then Americans in khaki and olive drab. After 3 p.m. there was never an empty seat on "the Continental Shelf," the raised veranda of the Continental Palace Hotel. Now there are many. The realization is only beginning to sink in on the Saigonese that the Americans are not coming back after...
...rear tire is punctured and the Mercury hobbles onto the shoulder of the road. We don't feel like climbing out. A man from the other car, parked now a few yards behind us, squats near the fender before coming to stare through my window. A khaki shirt flaps against his lank chest, his black hair touches his shoulders, and one arm swings round and round from its elbow, at a right angle to his hip, out of control. He offers us his jack...
Booted and largely bespectacled throngs of long-haired teenagers dressed in the neuter hues of khaki and denim, waltz in the aisles passing fruit and sunflower seeds. Joni's arrival turns the camp town meeting into a sing-along chautauqua. After the concert, the fans mass around the main stage exit to wait for Joni, and when she appears they voice timid hellos, give her bouquets or simply smile...
...incumbents generally did well. Among the exceptions were three senior Republicans who lost: Virginia's Joel Broyhill, a conservative who blamed his defeat on Watergate, inflation and published "lies" about his extensive real estate transactions; Iowa's William J. Scherle, a more cantankerous conservative, who campaigned in khaki work pants and a farmer's cap but was outorganized in his rural district; and Tennessee's Dan Kuykendall, whose known friendship with Nixon hurt enough to bring on his narrow defeat...
...planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body was dressed in a khaki work shirt and dark cotton work trousers and, according to his wishes, his pallbearers also wore simple work clothes. The other mourners, including his wife and his son Land, wore Hawaiian-style attire...