Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome Designer Federico Fourquet and ordered warmer clothes for the colder climate, King Constantine got on with what his father, Paul, once called the business of kingship. He refused to make any public statement, explained to friends that he was still "working to save my country." He made it plain that he would not under any circumstance abdicate, and that he as King still represented Greece's only legitimate government. He met with U.S. Ambassador to Italy G. Frederick Reinhardt and urged that, to give him leverage, the U.S. withhold its recognition from the junta government. He reportedly telephoned...
...contrast to the size and splashiness of the Japanese, the next two rooms display exercises in exquisite miniatureship. The galleries are wisely plain--stark white with only a bench in one room and an Indian rug in the other...
Heavier on the Trail. The fighting kept up its recent hot pace elsewhere in Viet Nam. In the Bong Son plain, bordering on the South China Sea, the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) and South Vietnamese troops routed two battalions of North Vietnamese regulars, killing more than 250. U.S. Marines south of Danang killed 99 North Vietnamese in a day's battle. Not far away, an Air Cav reconnaissance helicopter team got in a shooting match on the ground and killed the regimental commander of the 3rd Regiment, 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese army. On him and his party were...
...mountain tribesmen, who are the fiercest warriors in Yemen. Nor can the Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years of stalemate, the Yemeni civil war appeared finally to be reaching the climax that Nasser's intervention had so long managed to delay-but not to deny...
...longshoreman and one of ten siblings, Chandler was born in Lynn but raised in Roxbury. He received the degree of B.S. in Education from the Massachusetts College of Art last June, and now supports his wife and three daughters by working as community coordinator of the Jamaica Plain Area Planning Action Council...