Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plainly, despite all the gibes that have been thrown his way, there is something special about Dirksen. Says a White House staffer: "Who could dislike Dirksen? He gets his arm around your shoulder and, well, he's a total pro, able, cute and clever." He is also-as a result of his midlands upbringing in a plain, small town-trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. And when he traces his beginnings, as did Lincoln, in "the short and simple annals of the poor," those homely virtues take on a fresh meaning...
...Have Stood Fast." Only four months ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was saying that Britain would not join unless Europe made "the way easy for us" (see cartoon). Now, as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer hobnobbed in West Germany, it was plain that the road would be at best a rocky one. An outcry against Common Market membership from Prime Ministers of the "Old Dominions"-Canada's John Diefenbaker. New Zealand's Keith Holyoake. Australia's Robert Menzies-could bring Tory fortunes crashing. Menzies was notably less belligerent than he had been earlier this year, saying...
...Mayor Robert Wagner won re-election on a beat-the-bosses platform, it was generally assumed that Wagner would take over as the state's Democratic boss-and be persuaded to run against Rocky. But Wagner hardly has the temperament of a boss; and he soon made it plain that he wanted no part of Rocky this year. The result: a vacuum of leadership within the New York Democratic Party...
...though they were just plain U.S. society, they gyrated a passable twist at the Newport, R.I., estate of former...
...undulating youngsters, has led to the creation of two other teen-age nightclubs in the Los Angeles area: the Cinnamon Cinder (a "supper club" where supper means pizza and "no Levi's or Capris" are permitted) and Pandora's Box, a slightly more sophisticated version of the plain old teen-age club. Pandora's has the distinction of having ejected Hollywood Starlet Tuesday Weld, who claimed to be 18, was adjudged overage...