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...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...Angeles' Hergenrather Associates, founded seven years ago as the first California-based outfit, has played a major role in converting West Coast corporations to acceptance of executive recruiting...
Conductor Antal Dorati faced 17 musicians wearing 18th century breeches, periwigs and white silk hose. On a balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...
...brief seizure of bourgeois conformity, Painter Pablo Picasso, 79, nipped into the chic St. Tropez to outfit daughters Paloma, 12, and Catherine, 13, in the Riviera's latest de rigueur-narrow green slacks and embroidered tops. Though the girls consider themselves sisters, they stem from unrelated branches of the cubistic Picasso family tree. Paloma is by Painter Françoise Gilot, Catherine by Picasso's wife's first husband...
...sense. His 18-day tour to Europe. Asia and Africa had not been cast as an official affair of state. Thus Bowles, who served as U.S. Ambassador to India from 1951 to 1953 and has long been outspoken in his opposition to starched-shirt diplomacy, could reasonably wear any outfit he deemed most fitting for a man well acquainted with India's August climate...