Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...border. The most important redeployment is the transfer, still under way, of the 2nd Armored Division's powerful "Forward" Brigade from Grafenwöhr in the south to a new base outside Bremen. These are the first U.S. combat units to be permanently stationed in the North German Plain since the Occupation era. In this perfect tank country, through which invaders from the east are expected to come, the U.S. reinforces West German, British and Dutch troops. Some U.S. Air Force squadrons have also moved north onto little-used German bases...
...what products Revlon would introduce next?and then sat back to laugh while rivals scrambled to reproduce those nonexistent products. Did he have any trouble adjusting from the hard-goods world of delivery schedules and manufacturing specifications to the selling of glamour and other intangibles based sometimes on plain old hunch? On the contrary. Says he: "It's like being reborn...
...nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry II's daughter, has a "book of modern manners" due out in the spring. Probably the best guide to manners in 1978 is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, a Guide to Contemporary Living, Revised & Expanded by Letitia Baldrige (Doubleday, 879 pages, plain $10.95; thumb-indexed $11.95). The late Amy Vanderbilt, a distant cousin of the Commodore and a sensibly moderate arbiter of etiquette who eschewed the surpassing hoity-toity of Emily Post for a comfortably "modern" point of view, originally published her manners book in 1952, later revised it several times. Tish Baldrige...
...just dropped behind the Pocono Mountains, its afterglow silhouetting plain wooden bleachers rapidly filling with fans. The Palmerton, Pa., high school band struts along the end zone, then turns smartly down the visiting team's sideline toward a roped-off section behind their players' bench. On the near side of the field, the band for Pleasant Valley High is already in place, alternating Sousa with the theme from Rocky, while cheerleaders flash blue and white pompoms. Five candidates for Pleasant Valley Homecoming Queen wait with feigned casualness in a special section, shyly grinning escorts at their sides. Just...
...Evergreen, Plain...