Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currently operates out of Saigon airport, flying either a UH-1B "Huey," which staggers into the air carrying 6,000 rounds of machinegun ammunition and 14 rockets, or a "Hawg," a version of the Huey, which packs 48 rockets. Since last September, when Hunt arrived in Viet Nam, his outfit, the 197th Aviation Company, has suffered eight dead-out of a total complement of 160 officers...
Reminder. Happily, the commission prevented such lapses in last week's Appomattox ceremonies, much to the dismay of an outfit called the North-South Skirmish Association, which sent 42 costumed emissaries. Instead of shenanigans, there was a band concert and an address by Virginia's Governor Atbertis Harrison Jr. Senator Harry F. Byrd was present, and so were Lee's great-grandson, Robert E. Lee IV, 40, national advertising manager of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Grant's grandson, retired Army Major General Ulysses S. Grant...
...occasion. It was fastened, as the New York Times was constrained to note, "with a great buckle smack in the middle of her back," and completed by a matching stole forming "a portrait collar." So appropriate! Seasoned critics appraised it as authentic early '64. More yet. The outfit, explained Bess Abel, Mrs. Johnson's social secretary, had been bought by Thrift Shopper L.B.J., who used to tote home most of his wife's wardrobe in the days when he had time for such activities. Now that she can suit herself, Mrs. Johnson wears clothes mostly chosen...
...OUTFIT by Pefer S. Beagle. 249 pages. Viking...
...lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does not understand the game; it is enough that the Lions' miserable performance provides a stern test of his elected involvement in life. After the Lions lose the big one to Princeton, he can think of no more fitting show...