Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bath) from $8 a night, to a party cabin with four double bedrooms and a single, two private baths, kitchen, sitting room and dining room ($70 a night); food, bought at a local store, comes with the free service of a cook-houseboy. linen, cutlery, crockery. Hunters can also outfit themselves in Tanganyika with a safari the likes of which Tarzan never saw: all manner of bearers and boys, Land Rovers, guns, white hunters, impeccable service-right down to fine English china, antique silver, iced martinis and nine-course meals (lobster remoulade, filet mignon. etc., etc.). Cordon Rouge...
...fourth day, Challe knew that the jig was up. As a last, desperate measure, he started passing out arms to civilians in Algiers. But the ultras were not eager to fight. As police loyal to De Gaulle and a regiment of Zouaves (a mixed French and Moslem light infantry outfit) moved into Algiers at 11 p.m., the ultra announcer on Radio Algiers cried: "We are being betrayed! To the Forum!" At the Forum, a large square in front of Algiers' General Government Building, a crowd of 25,000 diehard Europeans milled about and watched the death of their dream...
...Phantom Army. Rumors circulated that a fresh, uncommitted exile army was somewhere in the Caribbean, and that a new landing was on the way. Evidence indicated that it was a phantom army; the only force of any size left intact was a 167-man commando outfit led by an ex-Castro aide, Captain Nino Diaz. On invasion day, Diaz opened his sealed orders en route to Cuba, saw that the CIA plan called for a diversionary landing at an unfamiliar spot in Camaguey province instead of Oriente province, a region that Diaz knew well. Disgusted, Diaz turned back to Florida...
...spends many weekends fishing, resting and talking with the peasants; he has a grand, job-producing scheme under way to drain the swamp and turn it into a tourist attraction. The peasants remained loyal to Castro and added their weight to the militia, which fought well enough for an outfit that was supposed to turn and run. The U.S. planners, despite counsel that June-when the sugar harvest is in and unemployment is high-would be a better month to count on unrest, decided to invade sooner, on the ground that it would be harder once some 200 Cubans returned...
...with a great Roman spectacle, by giving it in modern dress. Weli, not quite modern dress. Men wore tuxedoes and lit their cigarettes with Zippo lighters, careful not to burn their Edwardian sideburns. Caesonia (Caligula's mistress) appeared in several very Roman costumes, one modern evening gown, and one outfit that would not have been out of place in the chorus line of the Copacabana. Asa Gates designed those costumes which were not rented from a tuxedo agency. There is no set designer listed on the program, which may acount for the sets...