Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convenient bit of fiction that his mother, Mrs. Leila Smith, dispels with a single word: "Baloney." Actually, Robinson's story sticks a lot closer to the traditional boxer's mold-the hungry, ambitious kid who had to fight for survival from the day he was born plain Walker Smith...
Died. Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay Shore, N.Y. His most dramatic jury-swaying trick: whipping off his spectacles (fitted with plain glass) at the height of a speech, smashing them "by accident" on the jury-box railing, brushing aside the fragments to let the jurors know that nothing mattered except his words...
...committee were seriously divided among themselves on Far Eastern policy, and could not even be gotten together to plan a coordinated attack. The Republican policy committee hastily sent over two men to think up questions and feed them to Maine's Owen Brewster. They were not enough. The plain fact was that, after years of criticizing U.S. China policy, Republicans had apparently not bothered to prepare for their biggest day in court...
...Made it plain that he just wouldn't work hard to enforce the Kem amendment, which bans economic aid to countries shipping goods of war to Russia or her satellites. The Administration (which has no quarrel with the purpose of the legislation) argues that it is so unrealistically drawn that the friendliest, countries could not qualify for aid under its terms, and that if it were enforced, it would wreck the very nations on which the U.S. depends for military assistance. If the Kem amendment were literally applied, only Tito's Yugoslavia among European nations would be eligible...
Palencia began his straightforward observations of rural Spain as a child herding sheep on the arid plain of La Mancha, where Don Quixote started on his famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools...