Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Stokely's call to arms, a number of major cities remained relatively quiet: New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Milwaukee, among others. In all of them, black militants were the most influential peacemakers. Watts's Ron Karenga, abrasive boss of "US," a black nationalist outfit, supported the "Committee for Operational Unity," which had cooled the ghetto the week before. The time was not right for revolution, argued Maulana (meaning teacher) Ron, urging that "differences between bloods" be forgotten. Harlem's Charles Kenyatta, a chieftain of the American Mau Mau, preached in favor of racial peace...
...Frans Hals notwithstanding, she looked something like him, too, as she happily showed off her Yves St. Laurent jet-black velvet pants suit to a gaggle of photographers and admirers at the opening of Artist Keith Lancey's watercolor exhibit at London's Mayfair Hotel. Her outfit all but stole the show from the paintings, which was O.K. with the artist because she'll wear those same duds again for her new film, Dame Margot the Dancer, produced by, of all people, Keith Lancey...
...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
...draped with more than 40 lbs. of camera, batteries and film. Worse still, to synchronize film with the correspondent's commentary, the three have to be linked by a cable less than 10 ft. long, end to end, which makes them about the fattest target in any outfit...
Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...