Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of their time in their rooms, but in 1894 they found a home in an apartment on Church Street. Several more moves did not really better the Advocate's situation, but finally after a hard pull through the Great War, it moved into its first real home, a plain, old fashioned house at 24 Holyoke, known to tradition as the home of the first president of the University. Then, after a short period on Dunster Street, it moved to its present home on Bow Street...
...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
...women gathered one morning last week to shake hands with Foreign Minister Walter Guevara. After almost four years of energetic service, Guevara, a longtime sociology professor and an outspoken friend of the U.S., was being forced out. Even more worrisome was the cause of Guevara's fall: a plain left swerve by Bolivia's ruling party, the National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R...
...territory is ground-based antiaircraft weapons and surface-to-surface missiles of anything except extreme range. Army doctrine is that missiles are fine things, but they must be rugged, transportable, and easily concealed. Most important of all, they must be "G.I.-proof"; they will be under the care of plain soldiers, who will drop them, kick them, neglect them, spill ketchup on them. If made like laboratory instruments, they will not perform on the battlefield worth a G.I. damn...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by Carl Van Doren (Viking; $4.95), is a reissue of what is still the best of all books about Benjamin Franklin, a Pulitzer Prize biography that saw Ben plain, as few Americans have been seen by their biographers. Looming over all these, there is Ben Franklin's own Autobiography (available in everything from a 35? Pocket Book to Heritage's $5 edition), which, according to Van Doren, has seen more editions in the U.S. than any book save the Bible...