Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Souphanouvong, leader of the Communist-controlled Pathet Lao forces which occupy the northeastern Laotian provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly, was determined to get representation in the Royal Government of Laos on his own terms. To this end he assiduously cultivated the idea that unity in Laos was a family affair. After all, his half brother is the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma...
...robbed of $500,000 worth on the Riviera in 1949. It was not. however, so much the size of the haul that gave the burglary its special interest as the identity of the householder and the fact that on his return in the Buick he dismissed the whole affair as "nothing but a miserable little robbery...
...mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades her to accompany her on a little "trip." She is seduced by a high-ranking Fascist official who loves her but is married. Overcome, with guilt, she shortly finds out that her supposed fiance is likewise...
Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
...rebels it was good propaganda, and the Castro underground quickly smuggled out photographs of the boys in their battle dress. But for the Cuban government and for the U.S., which is officially friendly to Batista, it was an embarrassing affair. U.S. officials, with full cooperation from the Cuban army and police, planned to try to send an appeal from the boys' parents into the rebel camp. If that fails, U.S. emissaries may go in under a truce flag and try to talk the young volunteers into coming...