Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower budget's professional and political critics would hardly allow Edgar to forget what he had said. But in their attempts to read a serious family split into the affair, they forgot something themselves: Edgar and Dwight Eisenhower have always fought for the sheer joy of slugging-but when blood poisoning set in after High-Schooler Dwight fell and hurt his knee back in Abilene, Kans., it was Edgar who stayed two days and nights at his bedside and prevented a doctor from amputating...
Pivot of the shift was Jordan, which in nine years has been transformed from a quiet Bedouin kingdom to a turbulent and strife-torn nation dominated by Palestine Arabs. The crisis in Jordan was misleadingly billed by Arabs and Israelis alike as strictly an "internal" Jordanian affair. It was anything but that. Jordan is an artificial country carved out of the desert, and cannot live without support from somebody. Ever since the British abdicated, King Hussein's chaotic and impoverished kingdom has been open to every neighbor's intervention. During last fall's Sinai war, neighboring Arab...
President Pusey will preside at the affair during which certificates of recognition will be presented...
...Play-dome is the most recent of Matrix' brain-children. Built on the "geodesic principle" of interlocking triangles, the dome is a hardwood and pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
...course of this thoroughly distasteful affair, the spectator gets hardly a whiff of the shower-room sociology that permeated the book. He does learn a bit about what goes on inside a sadist-mostly, in this case, repressed homosexuality. Most of all, he gets a handsome introduction to two of Hollywood's most promising young men: Director Jack Garfein, 26, and Actor Ben Gazzara, 26, two products of Manhattan's Actors' Studio, who make their film debut with this picture. Garfein has directed the film more deftly than he staged the play on Broadway; he shows...