Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hospital Siege. Several hours after the affair at La Locha, 80 boiling-mad cadets raced through the capital's outskirts to the half-completed Roosevelt Hospital, where a battalion of Liberators lay encamped, and attacked. From the army base beside nearby Aurora airfield, regular officers quickly saw the chance they had been waiting for, rushed reinforcements to the cadets...
...kept newsmen from talking to them. A U.S. air attaché who spent almost two hours with the crew came out of the meeting and announced: "I don't know a thing boys." Appeals to the U.S. consulate for information brought only the reply, "This is a British affair." One reporter who called the police commissioner at 2 a.m. to check a "rumor" that the plane had been shot down was abruptly cut off: "How dare you disturb...
...Your love affair [with Mme. de Visconti] has lasted too long," runs a directive to Marshal Berthier. "I have a right to expect that a man . . . whom posterity will always picture at my side, shall no longer abandon himself . . . I want you to get married . . . If you don't, I will never see you again." (Berthier did take a wife, but not Mme. de Visconti...
Devil-may-care Porfirio Rubirosa and his current great & good friend, Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, showed up in Hollywood to start a horse opera called The Western Affair, an epic calculated to display polo-playing Rubirosa's short-in-the-saddle talents. But when Rubi, relishing his prospective role as a two-gun saloonkeeper, sashayed up to the immigration office to apply for a work permit the federals turned down his request. Their ostensible reason: Rubi, though surely one of the greatest amateur thespians of his age, is not a professional actor. Wailed Zsa Zsa: "It just...
Although public-power proponents have been trying to represent the power fight as a straight Democrat v. Republican affair, both parties have split, depending on individual projects. Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a state authority, aided by federal funds for flood control. A bill to allow the Alabama Power Co. to build dams on the Coosa River, sponsored by Democratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, was recently passed by Congress (TIME, June 28). On the other hand, Republican Tom Dewey wants...