Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They lost an estimated $400 million in confiscated property, earned no more than $19 a month in the camps. Although not a single Japanese-American was convicted during the war of spying, and many served in the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat team, which won more decorations than any outfit in U.S. Army history for its exploits in Italy and France, the detainees were not released until just before the end of the war-and then with neither apologies nor abodes to ease their anguish. More than 71,000 of the Japanese-Americans put behind barbed wire were born...
...Hero Business. Licensing was just the outfit to tell them. It acts as a sort of broker in what Chairman Jay Emmett, 39, calls the "hero business." It contracts for the licensing rights to properties ranging from TV characters to sports figures. It then licenses manufacturers to use the names to jazz up their own products. Now, with a score of salable names in hand-including TV's Batman and Mission: Impossible-Licensing grandly claims to be No. 1 in "an industry that represents $400 million in annual retail sales...
...submit sworn affidavits, if need be, to keep his name off primary ballots in such states as New Hampshire, Nebraska and Oregon. His avid supporters may mount write-in campaigns for him anyway-although they have found little backing thus far in the ranks of regular Democrats. One outfit, the Citizens for Kennedy-Ful-bright, wrote 5,000 former delegates and alternates to Democratic conventions requesting support, got only 28 positive replies. Said an Oregonian: "The only time I would favor Senator Fulbright for any office would be in the event his opponent was Wayne Morse, in which case...
Barnaby expects the Ivy League to be extraordinarily tight. Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth will fight it out for the championship. Princeton and Yale may cause some trouble. But Barnaby is optimistic. "All these guys are good tennis players. The potential of a good outfit is there...
Firepower v. Footwork. The President's new platoon also includes a military star: Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, 53, who was appointed last week as commander of Field Force II-a composite outfit of infantry, artillery and armored divisions that recently attempted, in vain, to wipe out the Viet Cong base headquarters near Cambodia. Palmer-who commanded the 23,000-man force in the Dominican Republic-replaces Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman. Having already proved his diplomatic deftness, Palmer will now have to adapt to a type of warfare where firepower counts less than footwork...