Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plain Man. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil before the ceremony, the Vice President-designate previewed the speech that he would deliver a few hours later. As he rehearsed his farewell to the House that has been his home for 25 years ("May God bless the House of Representatives"), tears began welling in Ford's eyes, and during the tribute to his wife and children the words came haltingly, only two or three at a time. "Ford is an emotional man," reports MacNeil. "He is a plain man who loves his family, loves his friends, loves...
...face of his mounting troubles, Nixon has shifted tactics in his Operation Candor, which was supposed to ex plain away his Watergate woes. For the moment, he plans no forays into the country, no television speeches, no press conferences and no sessions with Congressmen. Instead, he is concentrating on preparing disclosures of information on specific issues, like his comprehensive statement last week on his personal finances (see following story). Presidential aides are expected to issue papers this week on the White House role in the milk-support controversy and the President's involvement in the ITT antitrust case. Undoubtedly...
...CALL THEM bandits is just plain wrong--the real bandits in South America wear army uniforms or conservative business suits. To protest that they are unnecessarily violent ignores the violence that produced them--the hunger and poverty as well as the police forces and the electric shock tortures. And to romanticize them as modern Robin Hoods belittles the seriousness of their political strategy and disregards the changes in South American society that have called that strategy into being...
...singing that the fellow would be needing a jockstrap if they ever met. Now it turns out that advancing age and tranquil retirement in Independence, Mo., did nothing to sweeten the tongue or soften the wrath of the 33rd President of the United States. In a book appropriately titled Plain Speaking, to be published in February (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Truman displays all of his oldtime fire...
...CASE You didn't see any sign, we're the Sweat Band," Kent says, once the band is the center of attention. "We're from Philadelphia. Now, we're from Jamaica Plain...