Word: plainspokenness
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...public schools. Headmaster William Jackson, 54, a retired public school teacher, insists that he and his staff are motivated by simple love of learning. "We're not concerned with integration, de-integration, or whatever," he declares. "We're concerned with quality education." More frankly, Burton Gunter, a plainspoken Swansea farmer who sits on the county board of education, says that segregation academies are "going to take over everywhere," because "integration is ruining education-it's one of the worst things that ever hit this country, worse than a tornado...
...less, than anywhere else on earth, John Nance Garner carved a hefty fiefdom along the Rio Grande and parlayed his brand of conservative populism (with due regard for the interests of cattle, oil and Democratic regularity) into 46 years of power. His political personality was quintessentially Texan: grass-rooted, plainspoken, coyote-cunning, and he set a style of congressional clout that made him perhaps the most influential Vice President in U.S. history...
Died. Roy Roberts, 79, grand old man of plainspoken journalism, who in 56 years held every job on the Kansas City Star from reporter to president, a rumpled, cigar-chomping extrovert who made his paper "the hair shirt of the community," mixing enthusiastic local coverage with a passion for national politics, promoted Alf Landon in 1936, backed Dewey, Willkie, Ike and Nixon, but supported Lyndon Johnson in 1964, putting the Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest...
...syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of onetime glamour girl Rita Hayworth. Rita, frequently cast opposite Ford since they co-starred in Gilda in 1946, plays a frowzy, pathetic old flame who knows the rackets but preserves all her secrets in booze. Puffy, plainspoken, her veneer meticulously scraped away, Rita at 47 has never looked less like a beauty, or more like an actress...
...spirit with his fierce independence, his self-reliance, his courage. It is an image that burns brightly in the American imagination, an ideal rooted in the precepts of Jeffersonian democracy and articulated in the economics of Adam Smith-and it is sadly lacking on the U.S. scene today. Dour, plainspoken Charlie Shuman is himself a prototype of that image. "I'm an American conservative," he says with pride. As such, Shuman abominates the whole diabolic concatenation of controls and subsidies that is making the U.S. farmer "a member of a permanently subsidized peasantry...