Word: plain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end Baltimore was on the verge of chaos. Officers from plain-clothes and special divisions and riot-trained state troopers were on the streets, trying to keep looters under control. Negotiations resumed between city officials and Local 44, which was under a court injunction to end the strike and faces fines of $15,000 a day. "We've had problems before. We'll solve this one," insisted Schaefer. He was not prepared to say how it would be done...
...Ridder papers include such varied properties as the Journal of Commerce, a useful if pork-belly plain compendium of business news; Colorado's folksy Boulder Daily Camera (circ. 22,380); and the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which occasionally outshines its bigger Twin City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight...
...contends, the oil importers could convince the producers that it was not in their own interest to bankrupt their customers and "that their own independence could not safely be assured if the United States and its allies were to be fatally weakened vis-à-vis the Soviet Union." (In plain words, governments of oil-producing nations might be overthrown by Communist revolutions from which the West could not protect them.) But if even one or two major importers break ranks, the oil producers will be encouraged in the illusion that they can get indefinitely any price that they...
...cosmologist Erich von Däniken conjures up primordial heroes from the plain of Nazca and the temples of Palenque ?extraterrestrial astronauts who strayed to this planet long ago and then vanished. Today heroes and leaders bred on the earth seem almost as scarce. "There is a very obvious dearth of people who seem able to supply convincing answers, or even point to directions toward solutions," says Harvard President Derek Bok. "Leadership," observes Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti, "is one of those things you don't know you need until you don't have...
Kenyon Martin, the artistic director of the company, conceived and directed the show and serves as the principal actor in its first portion, Beyond Words. He is an engaging mime with a bouyantly-light and sure feeling for comedy. He makes his varied talents readily plain during the nine short sketches of classical mime which combine to make Beyond Words the perfect introduction to this too-long ingnored stage craft. Dressed in clown's costume and white face, working without props and only occasionally with music, Martin almost miraculously manages to create a palpable world out of nothing...