Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable change of course. Instead of focusing on how many immigrants can be brought to the U.S. under the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, the argument began to turn on how many Italian-American votes the Democrats can take away from the Republicans as a result of the Corsi affair...
...hour-long film shows for Tuesday-night showings next fall. Based on three oldtime Warner hits, Casablanca, King's Row, and Cheyenne, the series allots Warner six minutes per show to plug current pictures, gives ABC a major source of weekly readymades. The on-again-off-again love affair between TV and the moviemakers is plainly on again. Simple economics served as shotgun to the merger. Television has knocked out Hollywood's staple product, the inexpensive cops-and-robbers "B" picture. Since 1950, moviemakers have turned to fewer (by 39%) and bigger movies, leaving highly paid cameramen, contract...
...consent. Invitations went out to the capitals of Asia. and Indian President Rajendra Prasad agreed to welcome the delegates to New Delhi. The Congress Party's tough anti-Communist Bombay Boss, S. K. Patil, rounded up a delegation to participate in the proceedings. The press began touting the affair as an official precursor to the impending 29-nation Asian-African conference at Bandung, Indonesia...
...cardinals of the Inquisition were legally embarrassed. The charges against Galileo were a flimsy rehash of the 1616 affair, and the evidence fell some distance short of proving heresy. In the end, Galileo was condemned largely on the ground that he had willfully violated Bellarmine's so-called "injunction" of 1616. Aside from its melodramatic trappings, e.g., the threat of torture (the use of which was never remotely contemplated, according to De Santillana), the drama of the Inquisition lies in Galileo's abject recantation of his life's work. For this, Author de Santillana offers plausible reasons...
...preparation for the grueling affair, Chrisman entered the Brighton Read Race and finished 40th in a strong field of more than 100. Pates placed 84th in the 10 1/2 mile Cathedral Run in South Boston...