Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ugliness Is Bitterness." Last week the national face-lifting drive moved into even higher gear when 844 carefully selected delegates-including architects, urban-renewal experts, businessmen, Government leaders, conservationists-crowded into a Washington building auditorium for a White House Conference on Natural Beauty. Lady Bird, opening the affair, said: "Ugliness is bitterness, an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try and change that." Laurance Rockefeller, conference chairman, briskly told the conferees: "Our task is to produce specific ideas and come up with solutions...
...affair is far from over. The Department of Agriculture is studying measures to tighten up the easy rules for trading in grains, oils, pork bellies and other commodities. A wide variety of companies and individuals have filed a total of 160 damage claims contending that Tino De Angelis took them for $219 million...
WHATEVER became of Faust? His pact with the Devil is well remembered, not to mention his unfortunate affair with Gretchen. Less familiar is the fact that he was rehabilitated, at least in Goethe's version. He ended up in charge of a kind of symbolic public-works program, draining swamps and reclaiming land from the sea, thus creating new territory where millions might live "not in security, but active and free." To Goethe, the serene humanist poet, it seemed like the perfect task for a character snatched back from the brink of damnation...
Lady Bird's reaction was reasonable enough. But her aides seemed to be ready to treat the incident like the theft of an atomic secret. Anyone who would abscond with such a letter was obviously "untrustworthy," Liz told the press, and the whole affair might be a "security matter." Two Secret Service men were dispatched to Hamilton's office to extract the name of the letter seller...
...grain from Canada. Most of the U.S.'s $340 million worth of exports to the East last year was in the form of grain for Poland and Russia. While this business has helped to pare Western crop surpluses, it has the disadvantage of being a one-shot affair that will quickly end if and when the Communists straighten out their farm mess. Western businessmen are thus looking yearningly toward the more stable business of exporting hard goods to the Communist countries...