Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varieties of orchids. In the north, worker-elephants still pull the great teak logs from the forest with an efficiency no machine yet invented can match; mangoes, sugar and rubber plants thrive in the south. Along the great, glittering emerald rice fields of the fertile, canal-veined central plain where over a third of the 30 million Thais live, smiling, polygamous peasants lounge in boxy teakwood houses on stilts. Tethered beneath is a sinewy water buffalo, and tied atop is a television antenna, ready for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. clubbed in Thai...
...miles north of Los Angeles, the Southern California chapter, which has 250 members, last week was able to mount a 44-plane air force for its annual flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour sacks. The gyrocopters came as plain or fancy as the owners could afford, but all were equipped with a pusher engine, one rudder, one rotor blade, and a single seat with steering stick. The gas tank holds six gallons, good for about an hour's flight. The craft can rise to an altitude...
...sugary ineptitude of many Catholic hymns, church musicians have happily borrowed from Protestantism's musical heritage; of the 101 hymns in one new service book approved for use in U.S. Catholic churches, about two-thirds are of Protestant origin. Some Catholic musicologists are experimenting with Anglican plain chant to accompany the texts used at High Mass, while many Protestant churches have adopted the simple melodic settings of the Psalms composed by French Jesuit Joseph Gelineau. Men of both faiths are jointly exploring the liturgical use of new artistic forms such as sacred dance...
...source of the spoken commentary is apparently a mystery to the AFSC. The narrator is at times ridiculous ("All the Vietcong weapons were discovered to be foreign-made") and at times plain wrong ("The Geneva Convention divided Vietnam into two countries--North and South.") Sometimes the sound-track has no connection with the pictures: we hear the sounds of a furious battle, while watching a column of grinning soldiers march casually across a bridge. Worst of all, the film makes no attempt to give the audience the historical or immediate background of what he sees. The war is treated...
...least half of the recalls did indeed involve safety factors. All of this made at least one point perfectly plain: even though the Senate subcommittee rates credit for stimulating interest in safety among both auto manufacturers and buyers, the auto industry has been spending a lot of money for quite a while to make repairs it deemed needful without any edict from Capitol Hill or any publicity...