Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been the largest coup of Hoving's career, but last week it turned out to be a huge Indian gift. Enraged by city officials' criticisms of the plan, Annenberg, after taking out an imperious warning ad in the New York Times, canceled the project. He made it plain that the center would be built elsewhere-perhaps, a rumor had it, in San Francisco...
...with Reporter Peter Hawthorne in his 18th-floor office in the Hendrik Verwoerd Building in Cape Town; Smith spoke with Elson and TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs the following day in his sparsely furnished office in downtown Salisbury. Vorster appeared to be stolid but relaxed; Smith's answers were plain-spoken and understated. But in essence, both men made clear their hard-line conviction that whatever political transition is to evolve in southern Africa, it must take place largely on their own terms. Excerpts from the interviews...
...idea of a Cabinet-level energy department is hardly revolutionary; indeed, the DOE that Carter is proposing resembles one drawn up by the Ford Administration in its waning days. But it is a plain and practical proposal, attuned to the nation's current political and economic realities...
More problematical is the fratricide to which Constance Kent confessed in 1865. A plain girl evidently slated for spinsterhood, Constance had been blighted by a callous stepmother. At 16, Constance cut the throat of her 3½-year-old half brother with such violence that the head was nearly severed. She then stuffed the body into the family privy. When the judge passed the death sentence (later commuted to life), his voice choked with sobs, and a local paper reported that the jury and "the greater part of the assembly" wept over the severity of the verdict...
...petty and spiteful, and political London last week was talking of little else. For years Labor Party insiders have clucked and gossiped about the peculiar relationship between former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Lady Falkender, 44, his longtime and often evil-tempered private political secretary, who was just plain Marcia Williams before Wilson recommended her for a life peerage in 1974. Now Joe Haines, who served as Wilson's press secretary from 1969 until the Prime Minister's retirement from No. 10 Downing Street last April, has drafted a poison-pen portrait of Lady Falkender more lacerating than...