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...years past, the flight jackets and faded khaki have been growing scarcer on the nation's campuses. This week, a final contingent of World War II veterans rushed to register for courses, but by Wednesday, the cut-off date, it was all over. For most of the veterans, it is now too late to begin further schooling under the G.I. Bill of Rights...
...ledge-walker was a teen-age boy in a wine red shirt and khaki pants. He dropped his jacket. The crowd rumbled as it fell. "Jump!" bawled a voice from the street. The figure swayed out, then shrank back, arms reaching toward windows on either side. New cries arose: "C'mon! Jump! Get the show on the road...
...khaki shirt-sleeves and suspenders, the general prowled the red carpet of his sitting room, conferred with one or two aides, talked by direct phone to Washington, and treated a slight cold with applications of Vicks. Then he faced his stupendous task...
Traditions have even sprung up for the Mill Streeters--they have their own uniform, white shirt and khaki pants, and their own locomotive cheer...
...first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want to be identified...