Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEHIND the anti-American violence in Panama lie history, emotions, economics and politics, stretching all the way from the day in 1903 when Panama became a nation to the day in 1960 when its voters will elect a new President. See HEMISPHERE, "Puzzling" Affair...
...first time in a decade, French Communist papers, instead of referring to De Gaulle brusquely by surname alone, prefaced it respectfully with the title "General." But this was not all. Abandoning a longtime boycott on social affairs attended by De Gaulle, eight Communist Deputies showed up at a glittering reception given in the general's honor by National Assembly President Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and maneuvered through the crowd until they managed to place themselves directly in De Gaulle's path. Just as they were about to meet face to face, suave Jacques Chaban-Delmas, responding to advance warnings...
...press conference next day, President Eisenhower confessed that the affair was "puzzling." The treaty by which the canal was first built has twice been modified, he pointed out, each revision granting "a greater degree or level of rights to the Panamanians." What caused this puzzling tension between the U.S. and Panama, and the violence that grew...
...these decadent circumstances, network brass pleaded that they had been as much duped as the viewing public, but it became fairly well evident that, if they did not know about the quizzes, it was because they had not wanted or had not tried to know. The whole affair, wrote the New York Times, focused attention "on a shocking state of rottenness within the radio-television world and on the 'get-rich-quick' schemes through which so many people were corrupted and so many millions deceived. What has been revealed is deplorable in respect to the level of public...
Belated Recognition. Kintner began by giving NBC's official chronology of the Twenty One affair. When Herbert Stempel made his first charges that the show was crooked in September 1957, NBC officials did not report the matter to Kintner or Board Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff, but took Producer Dan Enright's assurance that Stempel was lying. A year later, when the Stempel charges finally broke in the press, NBC still took the word of Producer Enright and his partner, Jack Barry, relying largely on their "excellent reputation"; Kintner was not asked and did not tell the committee that...