Word: plain
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Beset by major problems of world and domestic policy, President Kennedy has had little time for plain old public politicking. Last week, for the first time since his election, he hit the hustings-and his performance plainly needed some polishing...
Faced with this glum news, Labor Department spokesmen abandoned all effort to blame hurricanes or strikes for the stubborn persistence of large-scale unemployment. The plain fact was that, despite its overall strength, the U.S. economy was failing to perform one of its important functions: providing enough jobs to go around. And in the minds of many observers the dark suspicion was growing that the situation was never going to improve until the nation faced the fact that it was undergoing a technological revolution comparable to that of the 18th century, and gave higher priority than...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat J. William Fulbright keeps his eyes on the far horizons. But as the junior Senator from Arkansas, he depends on the votes of the folks in the mountains and valleys back home. Last week, a full year before he comes up for reelection, just plain Bill Fulbright was wooing those votes for all he was worth-and presenting himself not only as a global thinker but as a peerless pork-barreler...
Scattered Llamas. Peru's Indians have much to remember, unforgivingly. The country, lying along the continent's western bulge, is harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last rain was 13 years ago), unload their moisture on the stony Andes. Yet in ancient times Peru flourished. The highly civilized Incas built stone-surfaced roads and bridged rivers; aqueducts spanned valleys, and canals cut through solid rock to carry irrigating water to elaborately terraced mountainside gardens. The welfare...
Under an agreement with the University, the trustees gave money to the Corporation to support a Professor and Arboretum in exchange for certain land in West Roxbury, now called Jamaioa plain, to house the Arboretum...