Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This will be a citizens' army in uniform . . . We shall have no repetition of former German military training methods." Goose-stepping is out. Off duty, soldiers will be allowed to wear civilian clothing and will be required to salute only immediate superiors. (Formerly, an enlisted man entering a civilian restaurant had to salute every officer present and ask the highest-ranking for permission to eat there.) Civilian judges will participate in courts-martial and soldier-defendants will be free to choose their own lawyers and appeal their cases...
...higher in combativeness and lower in information about what they were fighting for. Nor was there much of a feeling of guilt among students in the ten colleges because their preferred educational status kept them civilians. When asked whether they "found themselves apologizing to people for not being in uniform," those who didn't want to be in uniform say they didn't. Most of the apologia came from those who were "highly willing" to go into service...
...Last week Philip also earned the right to try for a new insignia (wings) on his uniform by passing the air-crew test which qualifies him for flight training...
...celebrate his return in a national fiesta. From suburbs and provinces they poured into the huge square outside La Moneda, the presidential palace, to watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed him a horn filled with red Chilean wine. Some of their loudest cheers were for Eleanor Roosevelt,* head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration...
Attention to Detail. In Japan, Marine Lieut. James H. Orr took his old darned uniform to a tailor, asked to have another made exactly like it, returned later to find the new uniform, complete with darn...