Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in the canals of the Mekong delta. Fortnight ago, reports filtered in that big Communist groups were moving south from Cambodia toward the marshes of the Plaine des Jones (Plain of the Reeds), 60 miles west of Saigon. The government forces were ready to try their new tactics...
When starchy Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan, 54, stepped from his green and white Boeing 707 at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base last week, U.S. officials were well aware that they had come to meet a talkative tiger. Days before in London, the plain-spoken President of Pakistan had demonstrated his old soldier's scorn for diplomatic niceties, had loudly broadcast his doubts about U.S. policy in Southeast Asia and threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take...
...week's end he spent a half-hour with President Kennedy. Afterward, Kennedy made it plain in a lengthy statement that U.S. sympathies were with Furtado and that the U.S. would put its resources where its sympathies lie. "The overall objectives," said Kennedy, "appear to be substantially sound, realistic and in harmony with those of the Alliance for Progress." The practical proof: a Kennedy promise to send a team of U.S. technicians to the northeast, along with surplus food-estimated at an eventual $125 million worth over five years...
...about like oriental chieftains in turbans and silk robes. In last week's production, Chinese-born Set Designer Ming Cho Lee wisely changed all that-and made the opera far more credible. His sets, strewn with fishermen's huts, were starkly simple, and his costumes were equally plain...
...some 16%) in return for Spartan service (passengers wheel their own bags to the loading gate, and water is the only flight-time refreshment). Profit-making United Air Lines is trimming costs by serving more modest meals on the jets. Says President William A. Patterson: "It's plain ridiculous to stuff down as much food on a short jet flight as on a long piston...