Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading about the "Affection Gap" [Sept. 23], I questioned myself as to just who dislikes President Johnson. It is plain that no man can satisfy all the people at all times. I wonder if it is not part of being "in" to dislike the man running the country...
...warning signals had been flashing for weeks. After the 1966 civil rights bill's ignominious demise last month, it was plain that the overriding cause was white resentment over Negro rioting in the cities. In Maryland, Perennial Also-Ran George Mahoney beat out seven rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
...have had the most dazzling of Hollywood careers, but-as any late, late television watcher can attest -it was certainly durable. In the course of 50 movies, Ronald Wilson Reagan almost invariably played the grinning gallant, the fall guy who winds up heartbroken, dead broke or plain dead. In King's Row, he lost his legs; in Santa Fe Trail and Dark Victory, bigger stars got the girl. In Hellcats of the Navy, he wound up taking a submarine on a suicidal mission; as George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory...
Only a few spectators were on hand in the slave-built courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., when two by now famed cases involving the shooting and murder of civil rights workers came to trial last week. From their relaxed air it was plain that few in Hayneville expected any convictions...
...counties. The Shore and the southern counties below Washington are solid Dixie. Mahoney won all of these in the primary (except Miles' home county). But why was everyone so surprised? Wallace took 11 of the 12 in 1964. After the election too many people wouldn't look at a plain fact--the Eastern Shore and the southern counties have simply always been pro segregationist...