Word: mufti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main drag, bright yellow, white, red, blue and green neon signs festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that...
...obviously less unnerving than confronting a public audience. During his 30 years in the U.S. Army, Walker had often proved himself a cool and courageous combat soldier. But last week, making his first public speech since his Nov. 4 resignation from the Army, he seemed a misfit in mufti. Before a crowd of 5,600 gathered to celebrate "Texans Welcome General Walker Day" in Dallas Memorial Auditorium, Walker was visibly nervous, with shaking hands and a real facility for misreading passages from his 90-minute speech...
...troops in uniform have so far not been harassed seriously by the East German Vopos, but the U.S. and France insist that even civilian-garbed personnel need show such identification only to Soviet officials, not their East German stand-ins. Britain, however, draws no such distinction in dress, permits mufti-clad members of its Berlin forces to flash their identity cards to the Vopos...
...Money in Mufti. With smart bidding and shrewd economy, Avco's pretax profit margin has more than doubled since 1957. from 3.4% to 7.6%. "But you can trim costs just so far," admits Wilson. For the future, Avco intends to boost earnings by swinging into more profitable civilian goods, altering its defense-to-civilian sales ratio from the present 60-40 to 50-50. To help achieve this target, it is banking on a rise in industrial use of such products as its turbine engines and heat-shielding devices. "In our forecasts for coming years," says Wilson, "profit increases...
...tried too far. In a last-minute attempt to shore up the lackadaisical Royal Army, the U.S. arranged for the Laotian government to request a U.S. military mission, and briskly agreed to supply one. In reality, this simply meant that the 200-man group of U.S. soldiers in mufti would put on military uniforms and acquire the right to serve in the field with combat units instead of confining themselves to providing basic training. The Laotians scarcely noticed the change of uniforms, being busy celebrating the Laotian New Year with much ceremonial splashing of water and chanting of prayers...