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...While their beauty-darlings sobbed and cried, the 10th dashed in behind the German lines and with saber and carbine cut down the enemy gunners. This was World War I, and twice young Georgy received the coveted St. George Cross, awarded only for valor in battle. In his black tunic, blue breeches and patent-leather kepi with bronze double-eagle, he was a doughty figure in the Czarist army...
...official occasions he came out in full marshal's regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...hour later Gamal Abdel Nasser sat unhurt in the Alexandria lawyers' club sipping a lemonade, once more apparently his old, softspoken, self-possessed self. The stain on his tunic turned out to be not blood but a fountain pen leak. The gunman cowered in jail and under police persuasion admitted he was Mahmoud...
Symbols & Subtleties. Milan's Museum Director Fernanda Wittgens is more explicit. In an article written for a special section of Art News Annual (out next month), Wittgens recalls the highlights of the cleaning: "It was found when the restorations were removed that Judas' tunic was bright blue with traces of gold around the collar and that Christ's garment turned out to be flame red, a symbol of His sacrifice. [Before the cleaning job, it was a dirty lime.] In the landscape some bright blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect...
Mimeograph Message. One of the master dissemblers of the age, Chou En-lai sat, urbane and self-possessed, among the powers at Geneva this week to make war with talk of peace. A dark blue tunic encased his widening but still trim, erect body. The grace of his carriage, the slim, expressive hands and the dark-browed handsomeness of his face belied the man's age (55) and the ugliness he had helped impose on mankind. Chou...