Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to ferment all the faster these days, now that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is closing the circulation gap-370,499 for the Plain Dealer to 370,759 for the Press. As a morning paper, the Plain Dealer has a built-in advantage over the afternoon Press with its tougher distribution problems. And on top of that, the Plain Dealer has been picking up spark from Publisher Tom Vail, 39, who is running some stinging and effective exposes and crisp editorials. Vail has hired 33 new editorial staffers in the past year alone...
...discussions on "the natural emotional responses related to kissing and petting." Eighth-Grade Teacher Bernard Dory deftly handles such queries as "Is it O.K. to have intercourse while the girl is having her period?" (His answer: intercourse during menstruation is possible, but many consider it unclean.) The need for plain talk is shown by the appalling misinformation some Washington youngsters bring to the course. At least once a year Teacher Effie Jones is asked by one of her eighth-grade girls: "Mrs. Jones, if I don't have sexual relations before I'm 16, will I go crazy...
...Perspectives. The new designs use ingenuity to do what bones and girdling could not. They scorn the plain nude look. Instead, they are finding new ways to make their revelations. For the healthy inside look, both Cole and Stewart have contrived necklines that plunge full and wide. Rudi Gernreich, whose topless suit provided the industry with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than...
...also believed in a number of other unmodern things-that "life is a forest of symbols," in fate, destiny, demons and spells, numerology and divination by study of birds and their behavior. What saved him from being-as so many mystics are-a bore and an embarrassment to plain men was his artist's eye and the controlled magic of his words, which made him a tragic novelist rather than a tiresome navel gazer...
Survival on the Frontier. As Meriwether makes plain, it took a tough and stubborn man even to survive on the frontier. Mostly because he was big and brawny, and adept with both his fists and a gun, he managed quite well. But even after he became territorial Governor of New Mexico, he had to sleep with a shotgun by his side because some rowdy opponents threatened to tar and feather him. He had contempt for anyone who walked away from a fight. That included famed Kit Carson, who served under him as an Indian agent. Carson prudently ran away...