Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Thrush agents plan brain surgery on Napoleon Solo in "The Green Opal Affair." Repeat...
AFTER reading this week's ESSAY, one of TIME'S editors abruptly abandoned his intention of having another try at Plato's Dialogues on his summer vacation, decided instead to take along The Cuckoo Line Affair, the love poems of John Donne, and Walbaum's Life History of the Striped Bass (Roccus saxatilis). TIME'S readers may also profit from the Essay, which suggests some rules for vacation reading, warns of the commoner pitfalls, and supplies tips for point scorers, Experience Maximizers and those who simply feel that they are being sealed off from...
Whatever was behind the affair, Nasser seemed intent on using it to start a new hate campaign against the U.S. And just as things were looking up in relations between the two countries: in the wake of new aid negotiations, Nasser's minions had recently become chummy with Americans in Cairo. No longer. Last week the government-owned newspaper Al Gumhuria accused the CIA of plotting to overthrow Nasser "by any means, even assassination." Suddenly the heat was on again, and even the friendliest Egyptians found it inconvenient to join their old American friends for a quiet meal...
...Risky Affair. The new measures were a tacit admission by Labor of what Britain's foreign critics have been saying right along: its previous steps, including higher taxes for consumers, lower taxes for exporters and a 10% surcharge on imports, had been inadequate. Indeed, the latest moves were prompted partly by fear that if there is another pound crisis like last November's, some of the nations that anted up $3 billion to bail out Britain then might not be eager to rescue Britain again. For Labor, which governs by a three-vote majority, the new deflationary steps...
...next two and a half hours, Zorba directs his master on a plunge to utter ruin. First, Zorba causes the mine to cave in. Next Zorba plays pimp and pushes Bates into a love affair with a local peasant woman. Her violent death at the hands of her fellow villagers soon ends the affair...