Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enclosed in a plain envelope with a neatly typed address, that letter arrived last week at the home of the writer's mother, Mrs. Robert S. Harris, m Melrose, Mass. Written by the Pueblos research officer and intended also for his wife Esther, it was among the latest of 102 letters that the 82 captured Americans have sent to President Johnson to U.S. Senators and to their own families and sweethearts since their ship was seized off North Korea in January. Having failed at the diplomatic level to extract an apology from the U.S. for the Pueblo...
Wrestling with private misgivings. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu publicly supported Johnson's bombing restrictions and the preliminary talks with Hanoi. But he also made it plain that South Viet Nam would try to go it alone if the U.S. withdrew support. Said he: "If the U.S. is no longer able to help us, I will appeal to other allied nations such as South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand to help us." Privately, President Thieu warned U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker that South Viet Nam reserved the right to repudiate any political agreement that...
...Cleveland Press car ried on its masthead the slogan: "Ohio's largest daily newspaper."On Wednesday it read instead: Ohio's largest evening newspaper. "In the slight shift of words lay a significant story. For the first time in nine years, the circulation of the morning Cleveland Plain Dealer had surpassed that of the afternoon Press...
...Martha Eliot Health Center serves an area of four and a half census districts--that is, about 17,000 people in Jamaica Plain and a small part of Roxbury. Because restricted funding has limited care to mothers and children under 21, only approximately 8000 residents are potential patients. The Bromley-Heath housing project, where the center is located, is nearly all Negro, with a smattering of Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The dilapidated homes around the project belong to Negroes, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Greeks, and some old Boston Irish-Catholics. Many of these old Irish families are unwilling to come...
...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...