Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main truce documents (six each in English, Korean, Chinese), which aides carried back & forth. The rumble of artillery still rolled through the building. Flashbulbs blazed and cameras whirred as the two chief delegates silently wrote. When they had finished, West Pointer Harrison and Nam II, schoolteacher in uniform, rose and departed without a word to each other, or even a nod or a handshake...
Never before had prospects of a six-nation European Army (EDC) seemed less hopeful. Convinced that the Soviet menace is waning fast, Europeans no longer felt the need to surrender some of their own sovereignty, or to permit 400,000 Germans to join them in a common uniform. The drive toward European integration was foundering...
Kokoschka finds such versatility all too uncommon these days. Everyone tends to become uniform-either abstract or academic. "In the U.S.," he grumbles, "people can't get jobs unless they paint abstractions. It is that constant repetition! You have to drink Budweiser beer, you have to drink Budweiser beer. After two days I had to drink Budweiser beer-and I don't even like beer." Says Kokoschka, waving an abstract catalogue: "This man makes patches for the pants. I say man is a magical thing, full of magical powers. This cold-way art leads to evil-it makes...
...school. There is a healthy interest in, and curiosity about, foreign affairs. This is due, I suppose, to the tensions of our times and an awareness on the part of the men, at least, that most of them will soon be projected into this uncertain world - in uniform. This was clearly reflected in the well-considered questions put to me after the sessions...
Homeward bound for his new post as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters...