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...even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee with the Floy Floy and A Boy in Khaki, a Girl in Lace. Television and Lucky Strike's Hit Parade put a merciful end to Soundies, but it looks as if Scopitone will be here to stay awhile...
...foot, following the spidery footpaths of the Ho Chi Minh trail west into Laos, then southeast across the mountainous border of South Viet Nam. The march was slow-five to seven weeks. Before they crossed into Laos, the whole band changed from their Viet Minh uniforms into the khaki of the Pathet Lao, and at the South Viet Nam border they changed once again-into the black of the Viet Cong...
King, or C. B., as his friends call him, does not look or sound like a southern civil rights leader. At Harvard last month he wore a conservative dark suit and a belted khaki raincoat which might have come from Brooks Brothers. When he speaks his voice is deep and grave with no trace of southern accent...
Capes still enchant most Cambridgiennes, and fortunately an attractive variety has appeared on the market in recent months. ADELE BRAGAR has a narrow, waterproof cape with detachable epaulettes and big brass buttons in khaki poplin ($20) and in lovely blue corduroy. ($24). Most stores carry several good styles, but GERTRUDE SINGER'S cape collection remains unsurpassed in Cambridge. In Boston, FILENE'S is showing some striking models in pastel wools with shoulder button closings...
...small figure may be seen tramping on the back roads around Croton Dam trailed by his two Labradors. His lined, nut-brown face, like that of so many Americans of the middle class, is that of an aging schoolboy, and his clothes that schoolboy uniform-tweed jacket, khaki drill pants and scuffed loafers...