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...enjoy a five-day, $950,000 tribute sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Some of the athletes had contemplated staying away to protest the boycott, but in the end more than 90% of those who were free showed up. Dressed in their best cowboy outfits (the official U.S. Olympic uniform: denim pants and skirts, plaid shirts, rawhide boots and white western hats), the athletes received gold-plated congressional medals on the west terrace of the Capitol. There, President Carter told them: "It is no exaggeration to say that you have done more to uphold the Olympic ideal than any other...
...suffer the utter ludicrousness of football in August. That's right, football in August--when it's 95 degrees outside and the players need to carry portable air-conditioning units on their backs so that they don't faint from heat prostration after running around wearing 300 pounds of uniform...
Because the University has no uniform dress code to encompass all personnel departments, individual supervisors set codes at their discretion...
...slender man dressed in a gray postal uniform rang the doorbell of an elegant $250,000 house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes...
...actor, who performed his World War II service making training films in Hollywood, possesses a respect for the military that borders on awe. Eisenhower, after a professional lifetime in uniform, took a more jaundiced view. He knew more about war and arms than his Defense Secretaries and Joint Chiefs ever did. He did not hesitate to contradict them. He resisted military spending. He believed in "nuclear sufficiency," not superiority; he knew that nuclear weapons had forever, unalterably, changed his old profession. Eisenhower was not inclined to rattle the saber too much. Ironically, it was the Democrats in 1960 who campaigned...