Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of his fellow New Yorkers com plain about crime. Charlie DiMaggio, 62, does something about it. Owner of a closet-sized grocery store ,on Lexington Avenue just south of Spanish Harlem, DiMaggio has been the victim of 26 holdups in 20 years. He has thwarted the bandits 16 times, shot four robbers, and helped arrest twelve others. And that, as Cousin Joe, the erstwhile Yankee Clipper would agree, is pretty good clipping. Last week three armed Negroes walked into the store for Holdup No. 26. Shoving Charlie into the wash room, they scooped $300 from the cash register...
...major cities that does not meter water consumption in residences. It has also failed to tap its biggest potential source, the Hudson River. Johnson reminisced privately that "from earliest memory" of his arid birthplace, he regarded water as the "determining factor in our happiness or sorrow." He had some plain-spoken hill-country advice for his visitors: cut down on waste. And in fact, Northeasterners may ultimately benefit from the drought if it teaches them some of the Westerner's reverence for water. One sign of change came at week's end when five states and the Federal...
...began as sea-breezy fun and a good-natured rivalry between two newspapers in the same city. For weeks the biggest story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerned one of its own em ployees. The paper kept its readers posted almost daily on the progress of Copy Editor Robert Manry, 48, who set out last June 1 from Falmouth, Mass., for Falmouth, England, aboard the frail 131-ft. sloop Tinkerbelle. Manry dutifully reported news of his crossing to the Plain Dealer via passing ships; once he sent a bundle of letters to his wife, and the Plain Dealer published those...
...engaged in no revolutionary politics. But the poet quickly became a symbol for the massacre of innocents. For twelve years publication of his name was forbidden in Spain; not until 1960 was one of his plays again publicly enacted. When the pavilion's exhibition opened, it was plain that the ban on Spain's most popular contemporary poet was completely lifted. Red Roses & Phantoms. More than that, the exhibition offers a revealing glimpse of a personal side of the poet's work. He drew guitars and mandolins, stage decors and a very plain-looking muse. He sketched...
...fight." After the visitors were aboard, the newsmen squinted through binoculars. "I looked right in her face," declares Green, "and I thought it was Jackie." Fast Denial. The picture certainly looked like Jackie, and newspapers printed it in good faith. Headlines flared: JACKIE VISITS SINATRA (Cleveland Plain Dealer); JACKIE SEES FRANKIE AND HIS DREAMBOAT (New York Daily News). Jackie had visited Sinatra when the Kennedy Administration...