Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arnold Arboretum suit--brought eight years ago to compel the University to return 57,000 books and 600,000 plant specimens to Jamaica Plain--is argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Timothy Leary, making his first public appearance here in two-and-one-half-years, says that he is beginning to understand the simplest means "by which an individual can be induced to get out beyond his mind." Henry A. Kissinger goes to Vietnam...
...castles in the air. Several times he has renounced his pretensions to the nonexistent thrones, though never with enough conviction to satisfy the Austrian government, which refused him entry into his homeland. Now the government has relented. He may come back from Bavarian exile any time he pleases, as plain Herr Habsburg...
Pictures by Earthlight. One after another, the pictures showed that Surveyor was standing on a broad, relatively level plain littered with pebbles as small as one-eighth of an inch in diameter and rocks that were more than a foot across. The terrain was pocked by an occasional small crater, and one picture clearly showed a hump on the horizon that is believed to be either a crater rim or a low hill. A view of one of Surveyor's feet showed that its impact had dented the surface a few inches, indicating to some scientists that the site...
...supporting the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam position, Duncan restated some pretty plain truths. He pointed out that U.S. policy since the end of World War II has been the containment of Communism. "We're not out to police the world," he said. "We did nothing in Tibet or Hungary, but we are now in a critical stage for the free world. This is a period of overall strife. Although some people describe Viet Nam as an isolated incident, it is not. It is part of a whole...
...Nationalist Chinese and Philippine employees. The line's 400-odd pilots are nearly all recruited from the U.S. military services, draw an average $18,000 in base pay, plus bonuses for hazardous flying conditions, which can raise the annual total to $25,000 or more. The flyers wear plain airline-type grey uniforms, stay mostly to themselves in special Air America clubs, and are tight-lipped about their missions. Says one Air America man: "So long as we get paid, we don't care what the customer puts in the back...