Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three persons arrested last year by the FBI and charged with the armed robbery at the Fogg on December 2, 1973, are awaiting trial in Cambridge. They are Louis Mathis, of Cambridge; Anthony Vaglica, formerly of Waltham; and Carl R. Dixon, of Jamaica Plain. Mary Megna, of Medford, who was also arrested, is charged as an accessory after the fact...
...Chamber of Commerce isn't plugging it, it doesn't exist--but there it is, and no one can think of a supermarket that's any bigger. There are no tour guides there, probably because, unlike the Superdome, the place is not a symbol of anything, but just plain...
Despite the vigilance of the Secret Service, American Presidents traditionally make themselves easy targets for would-be assassins. They love to get out among the people−"to press the flesh," in Lyndon Johnson's homey phrase−to show that they are just plain Americans after all (see The Presidency, page 18). No one could reach the White House while campaigning from behind a bulletproof glass. Just hours after his near escape, Gerald Ford was emphatically and calmly telling newsmen that "this incident under no circumstances will prevent me or preclude me from contacting the American people...
...helped revolutionize fashion photography by focusing beyond cosmetic beauty on the human side of his models, has put over 100 portraits on view, and prints of 75 on sale. Like that of Sculptress June Leaf, 46, most photographs show an unsmiling subject, slightly off center, standing before a plain white backdrop. "June is one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed," said Avedon of Leaf. "What came forward was not the fact that she has a beautiful face, which she has, but her quality as a woman." If Avedon's subjects are beautiful...
...with current illness?" Ironically, the one event that would release money for the study of earthquake prediction and control is the very disaster that scientists are trying to avert: a major quake striking a highly populated area without any warning. Tens of thousands of people living in the flood plain of the Van Norman Dam had a close call four years ago in the San Fernando Valley quake; had the tremor lasted a few more seconds, the dam might have given way. When the San Andreas Fault convulses again-as it surely must-or when another, less notorious fault elsewhere...