Word: affair
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...league with the Social Democrats, it was drafting legislation granting special immunity to visiting East Germans who might come on the speakers' exchange. The East German response was to call for a postponement of the talks until July, but that may not mean the end of the affair. Observers believe that the Kremlin favors discussions and no doubt will tell the East Germans more or less what it wants them to say. But the Kremlin itself may not be ready to provide any guidance until it gets a chance to discuss German reunification with Charles de Gaulle when France...
Canada's celebrated "Munsinger Affair" is more than just a national security flap. It represents a bitter personal contest-possibly to the political death-between Liberal Prime Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 69, and former Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 70. If Pearson proves his point that Diefenbaker's onetime Associate Defense Minister jeopardized national security in his relationship with 36-year-old German Playgirl Gerda Munsinger, then Diefenbaker could find himself on the way out as opposition leader. If Pearson does not make his case, he might be the one to go. Last week, after five days...
Someone called, of course, and the rest is Off-Broadway history. William Alfred clearly enjoys, if somewhat uneasily, his new role, but he looks at the whole affair with the same irony and good-natured humor that mark his opinions on nearly everything else. It is easy to see why the press has taken to Alfred for h is, as his Irish ancestors would say, a "grand guy." His good taste is always tinged with a humorous saltiness that seems to deal pretension a wallop. He is a native Brooklynite who doesn't hesitate to use the work...
...AUSTRIAN AFFAIR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A special investigating the revival of a Nazi-style minority in Austria, complete with dueling fraternities...
...tournament will be a three-day affair, including players from all the major colleges in the New England area...