Word: outfitted
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...average U.S. male over 30, is something for other people - females, fops, and perhaps the Duke of Windsor. As for himself, as far as his clothes are concerned, he would like to be invisible. And if one of his colleagues - or two of them - turns up in the same outfit he is wearing, he does not feel embarrassed, as would his wife. He feels reassured. His instructions to his clothier are likely to consist of asking for a suit, a shirt or a pair of shoes "just like what I've got on." But whether he is aware...
...agent, and the Government isn't going to say he is. Lee, being an agent, would not say so to anyone." If he was, he didn't tell CIA Chief John McCone, who hastily announced that Oswald had never worked for his outfit...
Lugging peasants and lumber hardly fits the usual picture of a Latin American military outfit. But with a lot of land to be settled-more than half of Colombia's territory is virtually uninhabited-and no foreign wars to fight, the Colombian government decided to put the air force to work by setting up Satena (for "Service to the National Territories"). The Colombian air force contributed the planes and the pilots, but Satena's other expenses had to be met from revenues. Charging one-fourth the fares of commercial lines, it still manages to stay in the black...
...small unit, encircled in the village of Idiofa (see map) and reinforced by a platoon of commandos, had piled up 500 rebel dead, but was unable to break the siege. At Gungu, another government outfit mowed down 100 guerrillas who staged a suicide charge with bows and arrows, spears and pangas. But the troops were cut off when rebels dug trenches across the local airstrip. Hardly had the commandos ar rived at Kikwit when one of their top officers, Army Chief of Staff Lieut...
Crowded Market. After months of delay, the hares have begun to nibble. Two Bremen outfits-Focke-Wulf and Weser-late last year merged to form the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, now Germany's largest planemaking company (7,000 workers). Last week Claudius Dornier, 79, boss of his family-owned aircraft company, agreed to join the four leading planemakers in southern Germany-Messerschmitt, Siebelwerke, Heinkel and Bolkow-in establishing a joint company for research and development. The leading power in the new company is Ludwig Bolkow, 51, a wartime designer for Messerschmitt and a leading Eierk...