Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within hours after her death, Marilyn Monroe faced her Last Judgment at the hands of TIME magazine. In quick, merciless thrusts your writer depicted early guilt, perverted dreams, and a "kittenish romance." It advanced a "death long in coming," "self-doubt," and just plain "body...
...Chinese keep strictly to themselves. They eat in a separate dining room at the Italian-built Dajti Hotel, live in a parklike embassy compound that is constantly surrounded by guards. The latest status symbols in Tirana, worn by Albanian Communist officials who have journeyed to Red China, are a plain beige cloth cap of the type preferred by Mao Tse-tung, and aviator-type dark sunglasses, also the rage in Peking...
...which he bought with Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2,800,000 in 1945 (he and Topping bought out MacPhail's interest for $2,000,000 in 1947), serve him well as a developer of new business via free passes, casual meetings in the ballpark, and just plain publicity. The golf course is another fertile source of new contracts and big deals; Webb belongs to no less than 14 golf clubs around the country, shoots in the high...
President Kennedy's favorite book concerns a British statesman who made a policy of keeping his country at a standstill for close to a decade and boasting of it. Issued now in paperback, this famed biography of Lord Melbourne makes plain that he was one of the most indecisive, lackadaisical and delightful persons ever to run a country...
...flight of 30 American-piloted helicopters flapped into the pre-dawn darkness last week, carrying 1,000 Vietnamese troops west of Saigon to the steamy, swampy Plain of Reeds for an assault on a Communist Viet Cong stronghold. By Vietnamese count, 99 Red guerrillas were killed or captured, along with large caches of arms and ammunition. It was probably the most successful single action yet fought against the Viet Cong...