Word: mufti
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...Silva told the officers. "They will cast doubts among you, at the same time attacking you in the eyes of the public. They will try to demoralize the government, and they will try to demoralize you." Who were "they"? Almost anyone in Brazil's elite who wore mufti, if Costa e Silva was to be believed: "You have heard voices raise themselves from the pulpit, from the courts, from Congress, from the universities and from the press." Some were even members of the National Renewal Alliance, the government party established after the first military takeover in March 1964 against...
...decision to doll up stewardesses on transcontinental domestic flights in "foreign accent" uniforms has proved something of a flop. Having hired the Wells agency away from Braniff, TWA next month will instead start outfitting its girls in what it calls "modernistic nonuniform uniforms." These will consist of casual mufti ensembles, with accessories to suit the individual stewardess' taste...
Measuring a Jellyfish. Most companies, however, continue to maintain at least some rules of dress, particularly for those employees dealing directly with the public. American Airlines has begun allowing its telephone girls to wear mufti, but still specifies clean-lined blue uniforms for those at the front desk. At most brokerage houses, securities salesmen are expected to dress conservatively. Far more freedom is given to back-office clerical workers, who are even more out of sight, both literally and figuratively, now that they are buried behind piles of paper work...
...assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...puzzle solving that the government employs him to find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like "I'm a septic tank for the world's ugly secrets...