Word: plain
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...PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...
...know where those West German researchers should begin looking for the 7.000 paper clips that just "plain disappeared." They may have been thrown or dropped down the backs or, preferably, the fronts of the dresses of office girls. In this new and interesting sport, I claim the record: 43 on one girl in one afternoon...
...Goddammit," roared Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, "they're kicking the hell out of us!" The Windy City's plain-spoken boss was referring not to Republicans, but to underprivileged citizens who might ordinarily be among his most loyal supporters were it not for a delayed time bomb built into the $2.3 billion war on poverty that has repeatedly brought the Democratic program into conflict with big-city Democratic machines...
Serving with Cox on the panel are David M. Shoup, former commandant of the Marine Corps, Thomas Vail, publisher and editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Ralph Metcalfe, Chicago alderman and former Olympic medal winner. The panel's chairman is Theodore W. Kheel, who was the mediator in the recent New York newspaper strike. the NCAA...
Timid no more. A year ago last May, Saigon and the U.S. decided to build up the national police so that they could carry out a classic role in counterinsurgency as developed by the British in Malaya: Resource Control. In plain terms, their function is to deny guerrillas food, medicine and supplies. Pham Van Lieu, a crack former marine commando, was brought in to restore discipline and esprit and to try to mend fences with the regular military. The number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many...