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...decision to establish a uniform policy comes in the wake of criticism of the University from Medical Area District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America. An article in its recent newsletter objected to the University's insistence that all Medical Area employees report for work regardless of weather conditions...
...juice while he dressed, and was in the Oval Office by 7, reading the newspapers and his daily news summary. Although his staff is a shirtsleeves-style crew, Carter has so far worked in a coat and tie, forgoing the sweaters and blue jeans that were his pre-Inaugural uniform in Plains. To ward off the chill, Carter usually sits in an apricot-colored wing chair near a crackling fire. His first appointment every morning, at 8, is with Brzezinski. The only other regular appointment on Carter's daily agenda so far is a 10:30 meeting with Powell...
...loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance where to render assistance and where to attack...
...speech in which he denounced the "Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July, Amin awarded 2,000 medals to soldiers, civil servants and relatives. Among those honored were his latest wife Sarah, 20, and his son Mwanga, 6, who appeared in an army camouflage uniform, carrying a toy rifle with bayonet. In Amin's sentimental citation, he lauded his wife and boy because "they worked so untiringly with me on the night of the raid on Entebbe...
...cork manufacturer, Zuckmayer won a pocketful of medals in World War I, then turned to writing. His immensely popular comedy about Prussian militarism, The Captain of Koepenick (1931), in which a shoemaker is able to take command of a town simply because he dons an army captain's uniform, earned Nazi wrath. After fleeing Hitler in 1933, Zuckmayer eventually settled on a farm in Vermont and wrote The Devil's General a black-bile drama attacking the Nazi high command. When Germany collapsed, he returned to Europe to compile his affectionate, good-humored memoirs, A Part of Myself...