Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waylaid by the hard-eyed opportunists of the Progressive Party. Though never a Communist himself, he accepted Communist help, he said, because "I will not repudiate any support which comes to me on the basis of interest in peace." But from the start of the campaign it was plain that the Progressive leadership was interested solely in exploiting Wallace's popular appeal. They had a willing figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance to Soviet pressure on Berlin, he became Pravda's favorite American. Wallace...
...capture one-time-only performances, many of them memorable, that are never recorded commercially. What makes them illegal is that many are reproduced and peddled under the counter. For "recommended customers," one Manhattan record shop provides a catalogue of some 2,000 black-market recordings. They are packaged in plain black cartons and, though stamped "private recording not for sale," sell for $9.50 for a single copy, up to $25 for an album. For the Callas fan, for example, the catalogue lists her excellent 1958 performance of Medea with the Dallas Opera, taped by a college student...
Continental's find is the third such discovery in as many months in the British sector of the North Sea. Since 1959, when Esso and Shell discovered the mammoth Groningen gas field on the Dutch coastal plain, fuel-needy Europeans-and an international array of ambitious oilmen-have suspected that the world's biggest bubble of natural gas may lie beneath the North Sea. Except for one inconclusive well drilled off The Netherlands last year, that dream was long based on geological speculation and nurtured largely by faith...
...short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs and archways make up a sophisticated astronomical observatory...
...their crops, a shrine where they worshiped their gods and buried their dead. It was also a device that priest-rulers could have used to enhance their power. On the day or night that their stone computer predicted an eclipse, they might well have summoned their subjects to Salisbury Plain to observe a spectacle that terrorized most ancient peoples. When the eclipse started, the priests probably intoned the prayers that enabled the sun or moon to escape the blackness...