Word: mufti
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...take them into his nationalist government. Ely insisted that the Binh Xuyen could not be smashed without civil war. "Your attitude is helping them to survive when I could crush them," replied Ngo Dinh Diem. U.S. Presidential Envoy J. Lawton Collins, a former U.S. Army chief of staff in mufti, echoed Ely's plea for conciliation. "Nothing can be done with the Binh Xuyen controlling the police," replied Diem. "Have you ever seen a Premier who did not control his own police?" The French, who have never been keen for Diem and have had long and profitable relationships with...
...procession passed in and out of the palace doors for hours on end to deal with the crisis-three of the man's brothers, one in the cloth of a Roman Catholic bishop; his beautiful, politics-minded sister-in-law; U.S. diplomats and U.S. military officers in mufti; eye-rubbing ministers of state summoned from their sleep for emergency consultations...
...David Schine, on leave from Army duty in Alaska, and clad in well-tailored mufti, hopped off an airliner at New York's International Airport and was greeted by his erstwhile investigations sidekick, retired McCarthy Aide Roy Cohn, now a Manhattan lawyer. Reporters closed in on the two lads and tried to learn more about their reunion. But just before vanishing with Cohn into the night, Private Schine snapped: "I have stopped speaking to newspapermen...
Charles A. Lindbergh, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (for last year's The Spirit of St. Louis, his brilliant, present-tense narrative of his 1927 transatlantic flight), put on his Air Force uniform (his first time out of mufti since before World War II) to become an active brigadier general. Long an exponent of a harder, faster U.S. military punch, Lindbergh will make a secret survey of the Air Force's super-secret guided-missile program...
...sunset everything was ready. Some 200 Moslem Boy Scouts gathered in a schoolyard, ready to be issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. He proposed that the paraders detour under the windows of President Camille Chamoun, a Christian...