Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. A fine collection of essays and reportage on subjects ranging from the art of light verse to Boston's long love-hate affair with Ted Williams...
...said. "All that was there for the pioneers was the bones of the redskins they had knocked off. And that did not stop them from having a civil war, which is still going on." As for Viet Nam, said the general, "the Americans, who've got their dirty affair going in Viet Nam with their tanks and their trucks and their air planes, have got to realize they're not alone in the world with the Soviet Un ion. When they realize that, it will be better, because we have nothing against them...
COMPARED with most other areas of cold-war conflict, the Dominican Republic is a small country, its civil war a minuscule affair. Yet in the six weeks since the first of 20,500 U.S. Marines and paratroopers landed in Santo Domingo, the Johnson Administration has faced a drumfire of criticism unequaled in range and volume since John F. Kennedy tried and failed to blast Fidel Castro out of power at the Bay of Pigs...
...Moscow!" During the French Revolution, a minority of priests and bishops welcomed the new republic, while thousands went bitterly into exile out of loyalty to the Bourbon kings. Since then, the "eldest daughter" of Catholicism has been torn periodically by quarrels over such issues as the Dreyfus Affair and separation of church and state in the 19th century, the worker-priest movement and the Algerian war in the 20th...
...Algerian government has accused the Swiss bankers of harboring $12 million that a rebel sequestered from Premier ben Bella's treasury. Last week, in a far more serious affair, Switzerland was shaken by one of the worst scandals in the annals of Swiss banking. 'The government suspended from office the man most directly re sponsible for policing the country's banking integrity: Max Hommel, presi dent of the Swiss Banking Commission...