Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro clergymen and educators and Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill. It met with opposition from segregationist bankers, as well as some of Atlanta's top merchants, who feared that their participation in the testimonial might cost them white customers. The Ku Klux Klan inevitably threatened to picket the affair. For a while things got so sticky McGill considered calling the dinner...
...commencement procession. Nobody will remember that Radcliffe College and Harvard College are two of many schools in Harvard University. But it worked, people did forget and there was Faye in the Boston Globe. While she was obviously ineligible and probably did not want the position, the whole affair kept the HCUA on your front page...
...which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...
...school administration learned about the cheating when some cadets reported it to their superiors. There had been, of course, isolated instances of cheating discovered through the years, and the culprits had resigned from the academy. But this affair was more in the nature of a plot, recalling the 1951 West Point cribbing scandal that precipitated the dismissal of 90 cadets. By week's end 29 cadets at Colorado Springs had resigned, and more would certainly follow. Air Force Secretary
While the French consider fashion every bit as momentous an affair as, say, an affair, the Italians take it all with a grain of saltimbocca. The results, as last week's showings of spring and summer collections proved, may never raise hemlines in Duluth or necklines in Dubuque, but they did raise an eyebrow here and there and clear round the world...