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...more often about publishing matters. In 1938 Hitler was chosen to be TIME'S Man of the Year (the criterion, as always, was news impact not moral worth). Since no adequate color photograph was available, TIME had to settle for a rather innocuous picture of Hitler in khaki. Brooding over this, Ingersoll replaced it at the last minute with a lithograph of Hitler playing a devil's organ from which hung his naked victims. Luce was displeased at such heavy-handed propaganda, but told Ingersoll : "Spilt milk-let's not discuss...
...with Air India tote-bags slung over their shoulder, intent on making a retreat--just like a trio of Beatles. The King (Charles Siebert), bearded, barefoot, and white-gowned, is their chosen guru, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking in a foreign accent. The constable Dull (Rex Everhart) is in khaki uniform with a sergeant's chevrons on his sleeves...
...Peru's Aguaruna Indians lived in secluded families rather than communities, dressed in dingy loincloths and bird plumage, and let their women do most of the work while they went off to hunt or war with Ecuador's head-shrinking Jivaros. Now, the Indians-spiffed up in khaki pants and cotton sports shirts-are working on road gangs, settling into villages, and even taking up farming, cattle raising and carpentry...
...wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking at his shattered legs. "Run 'em under the cold tap, luv," she advises. Real blood spurts from fictitious wounds. After soldiers die, they return to the ranks-for complex symbolic purposes-eerily uniformed not in khaki but in orange, green or blue...
Wall posters depicted a gargantuan Arab crushing a tiny Israel beneath his boot. Khaki was the predominant color among the milling crowds in the souk (bazaar). Most of those in the street seemed to be either policemen, soldiers, or members of one or another of Syria's plethora of paramilitary organizations, ranging from the "Volunteer People's Army" to the Futtawa youth corps...