Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affair shapes up as still another indication of the inability of high-ranking track officials to cope with unusual situations or to acquit themselves properly in the public eye. If the A.A.U. suspends Delany, its decision must be regarded as the epitome of fatuousness and misguided puritanism...
...aspersions it cast on our sincerity in participation in IGY to the questions it raises about our competence in handling any kind of international publicity, the policy adopted has provided a testimony of doubtful wisdom. When it is realized that the government was prepared to conceal the whole affair indefinitely, despite apparent Soviet knowledge of the entire theory involved, one can only wonder what secrecy in space and atomic energy really means...
...most significant aspect of the entire affair, as far as most Yale undergraduates are concerned, is the probation announcement, issued at 5 p.m. today by William C. DeVane, Dean of the College, Dana Young, Dean of the School of Engineering, and Harold B. Whiteman, Dean of Freshmen, which informed the student body that it had been "placed on immediate and indefinite general probation...
...support for brother Jack if Bobbie could get the McClellan committee to play ball. The offers, said Bobbie, were "dismissed," reported to Brother Jack-but not to Committee Chairman John McClellan. In Washington, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, senior G.O.P. committee member, demanded that "the whole nauseating affair be fully explored and publicly exposed...
...Foundation's third trustee, William A. Robertson '31, revealed that the group will be "getting out some publicity on the Bunche affair within the month...