Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispiriting sense of tedium and pessimism that envelops the talks and the American delegation. Lodge would like to return permanently if he could do so without embarrassing Nixon. As the 37th session of repetitious dialogue ended on the same note of stalemate in the Hotel Majestic, one thing was plain: Lodge, 67, longs to retire from public service...
Thoreau's vision is alive and well in seven Northeastern states, where 581 municipalities have started "conservation commissions" that are fast becoming the most effective new arm of local government. Each commission has five to nine members, usually plain citizens appointed by the town. Charged with managing local natural resources, they try to accommodate competing needs, such as developing industry and saving wetlands. At a time of rapid, sloppy urbanization, the new commissions have found ways to strike a balance between progress and preservation. On their record so far, their efforts merit study throughout...
Some Trouble. The key to success, as a forthcoming study by the Conservation Foundation in Washington, D.C. makes plain, is support from the state. New York's 20 commissions have done little, mainly because Albany has not decided how much legal power, if any, they should have. New Hampshire's 85 conservation commissions are severely hampered by lack of matching grants from the statehouse in Concord, And Rhode Island's 27 have been almost totally neglected by Providence...
...Weathermen began gathering in one corner of Haymarket Square around noon. Before the march started, however, plain clothed policemen filtered into the crowd and seized five Weathermen leaders, including Mark Rudd, national secretary, who was making his first public appearance during the disturbances...
...there is any political logic to racing down city streets, breaking shop and car windows and assuaging policemen, the demonstrators have not bothered to make it plain. One R Y M-I leader announced Wednesday night that the "revolution must move like fish in the sea." Against the background of the week's events, the words sounds like a parody of Mao's essential teaching. Chicago's "friendly sea" turned on the group of Weathermen, as some bystanders fought with them in the streets...