Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flown in by Air Force Globemaster, the two women beat their husbands to Washington. Captains Olmstead and McKone were forced to delay overnight in Goose Bay, Labrador, while weather cleared along their route. It was a convenient layover. It gave the two men time to outfit themselves with Air Force uniforms at the base post exchange; it gave Air Force doctors a chance to convince themselves that both men were in good mental and physical health. But there was no need to worry about what either man might say to the press. Newsmen were kept far out of reach...
...dinner dance. Then, after dropping in at a party tossed by West Coast Financier Bert Lytton, Kennedy took off again, in a chartered DC-6, for New York and a peaceful night away from the social demands of the capital. He got his final fittings for his inauguration outfit (cutaway, grey waistcoat, striped pants, topper), ordered a few business suits at $225 apiece, got a checkup from his dentist ("No cavities'') and hopped on the plane for Washington again...
...serviceman will recognize Raditzer. There is one in every outfit-the sniveling, creepy little muckup who not only fails to pull his weight but manages to add it to the load carried by others. In his third novel, Author Peter Matthiessen, 33, has pinned him to the page as the prototype of the heel who arouses disgust in better men but touches off something uneasily protective in the best of them...
...Stars. Heintges directs a U.S. outfit that amounts to a military advisory group in Laos. But it must operate in mufti. Reason: the 1954 Geneva agreement that ended the war in Indo-China...
...hardware and pick up the bill for its troops' pay and maintenance. As millions of dollars worth of U.S. military aid to Laos rotted through the years from improper care, the U.S. decided it had to tackle the problem itself. The instrument chosen was a State Department outfit called the Programs Evaluation Office, which had been delivering the arms along with some rudimentary instruction in their...