Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes it has taken an imaginative outsider to see the U.S. plain. There were De Tocqueville and Lord Bryce, and in this century the Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal...
...program ended last May. Last week it seemed apparent that, save for sheer luck and pluck, Project Mercury might just as readily have ended in disaster. In a 444-page epilogue to Mercury, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a hair-raising tale of failures, ineptitude and just plain carelessness among the private contractors who built and equipped the space capsules...
...Plain & High. Always a lonely man, Wilson is even more isolated as leader of the party. He sees few of his old leftwing supporters outside working hours, even declines colleagues' dinner invitations on the grounds that it would be unfair to listen for hours to one man's views and still enforce his 15-minute cutoff on office interviews with other associates. Men who have worked with him for decades and live in his Hampstead neighborhood have never stepped inside the modest, cluttered house at 12 Southway, where he lives with his wife Mary, a Congregationalist minister...
Wilson's austere social life has proved a bitter disappointment to Fleet Street, which found party-loving Hugh Gaitskell's capers a fertile source of copy. "I prefer beer to champagne and tinned salmon to smoked," insists Wilson. "I am on the side of plain living and high thinking." Actually, Wilson likes steak and wine as well as the next man, but he tucks into packaged custard, stewed rhubarb and canned meat with schoolboyish gusto...
About the only economies encountered were in furnishings, thanks to Harold and Dorothy Macmillan, hardly the types to let their imaginations run riot. They ordered everything "very plain and simple," vetoed damask and brocade for the walls, had the bedroom done in chintz. Last week, with the renovation finally finished more than a year behind schedule, the total bill stood at an astronomical...