Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...USIA by $37.9 million, or 26%. Hardly pausing for breath, it knocked $47.3 million, or 21%, from State Department budget requests. Army Secretary Wilber Brucker invited a group of Congressmen to witness at Army expense a military demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Brucker also passed the word that the affair would be held the same weekend as the nearby Kentucky Derby. Result: Brucker hastily canceled the invitation after a budget-cutting howl that could be heard all the way to Churchill Downs...
...modified Viking) is about to be launched with the small third-stage rocket sticking out of its nose. This combination is nothing like the complete launching vehicle. The second-stage rocket will contain the most subtle guiding instruments, and its omission will make the flight a comparatively crude affair. But valuable information can be gathered about the performance of the third-stage rocket, whose purpose is to start firing about 300 miles above the surface and reach the necessary speed (18,000 m.p.h.) to stay in an orbit around the earth...
...admire "Love Comes To Miss Lucy," "Sridni Vashtar," and "A Jungle Graduate" more than the average piece in the collection simply because of their ideas: a seeming love affair that takes an unusual turn, a child who wishes and imagines a murder that comes true, and a quiet story of turnabout. "The Waxwork" deserves less praise for its idea (a night in a waxwork chamber of horrors), but a great deal for its ending, which is led up to gently and tidily. "The Lady On The Grey," an echo of Circe, is a minor but still notable example...
...already well serviced, and U.S. airlines, which want no more competition. Domestic lines keep a watchful eye on foreign carriers since the State Department granted lush U.S. air routes to West Germany's Lufthansa (TIME, June 27, 1955). But the Dutch made their campaign an affair of national honor. Last week, faced with rising Dutch feeling, the U.S. State Department decided to please a NATO ally at the risk of angering U.S. airlines. It granted the Dutch two new routes: KLM will now be allowed to land at Houston on its Amsterdam-Montreal-Mexico City route, fly from Curagao...
...spare-time incarnations as poet and author. It was in Carder's, where she was trading her diamond tiara for a rope of matched pearls, that she met Actor John Barrymore-"the most beautiful man that ever lived," said she, "like a young archangel." But their unangelic love affair was like "a tennis match in Hell." More than three years later, Blanche Thomas, defying the warning cries of her friends and the exigencies of the Social Register, divorced her husband, Leonard Thomas, and married her archangel...