Word: mufti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army (of. the $34.2 million spent by the U.S. in Laos last year, only $590,750 went to agriculture, in a country where 90% of the people are farmers). The soldiers got shiny U.S. equipment and instruction as to its use from a band of U.S. soldiers in mufti euphemistically called the Programs Evaluation Office (since technically only the French, under Geneva's terms, were supposed to train Laotian soldiers...
...Stars. Heintges directs a U.S. outfit that amounts to a military advisory group in Laos. But it must operate in mufti. Reason: the 1954 Geneva agreement that ended the war in Indo-China...
...Algeria, General Raoul Salan, 61, who has become a virulent opponent of De Gaulle's policy and was recently ordered to stay out of Algeria. At a Paris news conference last week in the Palais d'Orsay Hotel, newsmen found Salan flanked by 30 retired generals in mufti, a band of right-wing Deputies and Senators, and a cheering section of strong-armed Poujadists. Salan read a statement denouncing De Gaulle for trying to settle the Algerian war by "negotiating with murderers...
Among the artists who exhibited at the first Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit of 1932, the man who was to become most famous was Jackson Pollock, grand mufti of action painting. But that year the top prize of $50 went to an artist of quite a different sort. A birdlike little (5 ft. 2 in.) man with a realistic style and an irrepressible sense of humor, Louis Bosa, 55, has always been fascinated by "the silly human things people do. I play detective all the time." Last week a bit of Bosa's amiable detective work won him first...
After a welcoming flourish on its gleam ing, 40-in. herald trumpets, the Army band swung smartly into Waltz of the Flowers, and the two old soldiers in mufti stepped out to review their honor guard. Both were out of step with the music, but neither seemed to notice. The niceties of military precision were a remote problem last week to President Dwight Eisenhower and his guest. President Charles de Gaulle. The man of France was making his first visit to the U.S. in 15 years, not as a soldier but as a statesman, not as a pleader...