Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First row--Donald E. Graham '66, of Winthrop House and Washington, D.C., president; Martin S. Levine '66, of Kirkland House and Hillsdale, N.J., managing editor; Sanford J. Ungar '66, of Winthrop House and Kingston, Pa., associate managing editor; and Conal C. Doyle '66, of Quincy House and Jamaica Plain, business manager...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the president for Civic and Governmental Affairs, met last Friday with Rep. William A. Carey (D. Jamaica Plain) to discuss charges of a "Harvard land grab" regarding the expansion of the Massachusetts Medical Health Center...
...natives observe a rigid noonday ritual. The social elite-a breezy clique called the Palisades-Brentwood Singing and Drinking Association-hold court at cafeteria tables reserved by custom for them. Near by, like ladies in waiting, two plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back...
...rcio de Minérios), which is owned 51% by Brazilians and 49% by Bethlehem Steel Corp. ICOMI owns the exclusive rights to one of the world's biggest known reserves of manganese ore, discovered in the Amazon Basin in 1946. By careful planning, efficient management and plain luck, it has not only launched a highly successful mining operation but completely avoided the abuse that Brazil's ultranationalists have heaped on other mining firms that have foreign interests...
...seems a creation of the proud will, not the passions. But for the careful ear there is strong music, cool and casually regular. Gregory is a highly professional craftsman who has chosen to work mostly in silver and pewter and dull bronze, rarely in gold. His muse is a plain girl, easily overlooked in flashy company-but the eye wanders back to her, for she has perfect skin, fine bones, a direct, grey gaze and a clear mind...