Word: plain
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...Just Plain Dick. Most of his opponents paint Nixon as a ruthless, calculating politician without an ounce of humanity in his soul. Yet there are numberless incidents in the book that show him as a lonely man who treasures tiny tributes as though they were sapphires. He recalls that in the midst of the Lima riots, just before Caracas, "Tad Szulc. Latin American correspondent for the New York Times, ran alongside the car saying, 'Good going, Mr. Vice President, good going. " In Moscow, immediately after his harangue with Khrushchev, "Ernie Barcella the correspondent for United Press International, came alongside...
...last resort," i.e., against the European terrorists of the S.A.O., who have already decreed Fouchet's death. A strapping, six-foot athlete with a cannonball serve in tennis and a fondness for quoting the plays of Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux, Fouchet has a reputation for plain speaking and personal honesty. He escaped when France fell, served as a Free French paratrooper. He has been a dedicated Gaullist ever since, worked for Le Grand Charles as propagandist, diplomat, watchdog in the National Assembly, and for the past eight months as chairman of the Fouchet Committee on European unity...
...bayonets. For the first time in his life, the Shah walked alone and unprotected in the midst of his people. Weeping peasant women tried to kiss his hand or foot; those who could not reach him ran to kiss his royal car instead. Driving away from the dark, muddy plain, the Shah could hear the peasants shouting after him: "May God keep your sword always sharpened!" "May God strike down your enemies...
Tallyho. Actors with plain, pronounceable, American Legion sort of names yearn for toning up. Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
Columnist Walter Lippmann, who has descended from his oracular heights to become a plain Kennedy Democrat, had the first word. "It now appears," he wrote last week of an Administration plan to buy $100 million worth of United Nations bonds, "that it may be defeated by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats." The danger: a counterproposal, by U.S. Senators George D. Aiken of Vermont and Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, both Republicans, that the U.S. Government lend the U.N. the money instead. Charged Lippmann hotly: This "confused raid on the bond plan" was caused by "crude partisanship . . . personal disgruntlement...