Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon, Goldwater concluded: "Of course, when he gets back here to Texas and has those high-heeled boots on, and that ten-gallon hat, and he calls you 'Pardner,' he sounds like a conservative banker. But I can tell you in Washington when he wears just plain old shoes and says, 'How do you do,' he speaks an entirely different language, that of the radical liberals. And whether he likes it or not, or even knows it, he is backing socialism...
...lost 40 lbs. before he began to run, is now a trim 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs. He owns four airplanes, one of them a jet, and each day he takes off from his personal airport at Winrock bound for a campaign destination. When he arrives, a just-plain-folks secondhand bus, driven there the night before, is waiting to carry him over back roads to tiny hamlets and home towns. The Rockefeller bus is plastered with "Win with Win" signs; on the placard in front, the words are lettered backward so they can be read in a motorist...
...Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 51, a Yale Law School graduate and an armed-services expert who is one of the most influential of all Republican Congressmen. In Allen W. Dulles, 71, former CIA chief, the Commission had an investigator well experienced in the ways of Communists, fascists and plain crackpots; in John McCloy, 69, it had a banker who distinguished himself as Harry Truman's U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and as John Kennedy's disarmament adviser...
Then, over crowd-lined streets, he headed downtown for conferences with local Congress Party leaders, after which he appeared on the Maidan, a big, grassy plain in the heart of Calcutta, to give a crowd of 350,000 an opportunity for darshana - a sort of blessed contact through sight - and, more important, a major political speech plugging his own new brand of neutralism for India...
...Washington the U.S. Tax Court made it plain that if a retired businessman wants to turn his longtime hobby into work and use it as a tax deduction, he had better make sure it is a genuine income-producing endeavor. Retired General Motors Executive Martin C. McGowan owes $19,864 in taxes for 1957-59, said the court, because in those years he deducted more than $40,000 for cameras, film and travel costs on two African safaris and trips to India, the Far East and Alaska. McGowan, who earned $53,819 in his last full year (1956) with...