Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor's ignorance did not last very long, however. The son ceremoniously withdrew from the Law School because his father's honor had been insulted, and Mayor Curley made a public statement to explain his son's action. News of the affair reached as far as the newspapers of Shanghai, Seavey recalls...
Nevertheless, the Corsi affair leaves several unanswered questions. In January, after all, Dulles called Corsi "the best qualified man in the United States" to lift the administration's refugee program out of the doldrums that have gripped it for its first two years. The American public can only hope that the Secretary's judgment has improved in those three months, for he may soon be called upon to make even more important decisions. The Corsi controversy recalls the Republican campaign in 1952, when President Eisenhower urged the revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Surely the entire Republican Party...
...Chicago, British-educated Herman Finer, a pixy-like professor of social science, had an instantaneous love affair with TV. A veteran of the University of Chicago Round Table radio show, Finer, 57, a onetime welterweight at the University of London, has just done a series of twelve solo TV shows devoted to "Government and Human Nature." As high-strung as any star, Finer goes on the air fortified by repeated cups of coffee and doses of cough syrup, gives a vibrant performance (a fan describes him as "a real ancient George Gobel type"). After the show he needs...
Swiss yodels richocheted through the snow-covered New England mountains. On the swarming ski slopes at Stowe, Vt., amid the babel of German, French, Norwegian and Italian, American voices were all but lost. The affair sounded like a dress rehearsal for next year's winter Olympics, and to the U.S. Olympic Ski Games Committee, the American-International Ski Races were just that...
There was no doubt that the hearings were generating so much more heat than light that Chairman Fulbright himself admitted that the whole affair appeared to be "futile." Then he helpfully translated just what he meant by "futile": "We are in a box. If any good comes out of these hearings, the credit redounds to the President rather than...