Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...home and abroad, the appointment of Plain Citizen Dean Rusk to the new Administration's most important Cabinet post set off a puzzled reaching for reference books to find out who Dean Rusk is. To the intimate few who had seen Dean Rusk in action at the War Department or State Department during a decade of solid Government service, the news brought a fraternal glow of delight. "A terrific appointment," said one State Department official. "When I heard about it, I was really overjoyed." The late John Foster Dulles was a longtime Rusk admirer. So was Rusk...
...when Dillon and Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson flew to Bonn four weeks ago to demand that West Germany pay a bigger part of the Western defense bill, Dillon made it plain that he was out of sympathy with Anderson's gruff demands-a fact that may return to plague him as he takes Anderson...
...Winston Churchill who picks up the receiver, while "Duckling" is Winston himself, and "Wormwood" is none other than General Charles de Gaulle.* "Duff," of course, is Lady Diana's husband, who died as Lord Norwich in 1954 but who, during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk, and at the embassy piano listening to "Ernie" Bevin sing cockney ballads. It is by a thousand such little cinema frame...
...Bettex, a handsome history of exploration; The Lithographs of Chagall, with 237 fine reproductions; Hummingbirds, by Crawford H. Greenewalt, with superb photos and readable monographs by, of all people, the president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For givers under no compulsion to bedazzle, there are also plain books. Among the best recent ones...
...including the fact that they are the only birds that can hover with body motionless, and the only ones that have a " 'reverse gear' which enables them to fly backwards as prettily and efficiently as they can forwards." What will most excite bird watchers as well as plain readers is the crisp, full-color photographs, the largest collection ever published, which catch the hummingbirds in dazzling flight...