Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sits in the Résidence Générale at Rabat today is General Augustin Léon Guillaume, 56, a forthright and plain-spoken man with a brilliant military record in two world wars. A doctor's son from the Alps, Guillaume speaks Italian, German, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Moorish Arabic, Berber; he was a close friend of the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, hero of Indo-China...
...caparisoned in a new and striking hairstyle. Stand on any street corner and chalk up the different styles that march, prance, mince, amble by. Bob follows shingle, and weave follows bob; hair is piled up, tossed down and trampled on, pinned with pins, carefully disciplined or just plain rampant. If any two similar styles walk by you know they belong to twins...
From these post-mortem examinations it was plain that Bob Taft failed to win the people who came to see and hear...
...plain truth, said David B. Wallerstein, general manager of the Balaban & Katz theater chain, is that nine fights and football games cost B. & K.'s Chicago Tivoli theater $23,640. Admissions brought in $14,541. Total loss (excluding normal operating costs): $10,312. The only Tivoli telecast to make money ($1,213) was the Robinson-Turpin fight in September. B. & K. has invested $128,000 in special TV equipment for five theaters, but, said Wallerstein, the company will make no further installations...
...cargo ships, the first new class of cargo ships built by the board since the war. The new class is bigger (12,500 deadweight tons) and faster (20 knots) than World War II's Victory ships. As the first Mariner slid down the ways last month, it was plain that the $350 million would be only a down payment to modernize the U.S. Merchant Marine. Cochrane was thinking about asking for another $150 million for 15 more Mariners. Yet last week, as the new ships were abuilding, the Maritime Board announced that it is laying...