Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Light Shine." Jackie attended only one affair - a 4½-hour reception for some 5,600 invited Democrats held by Averell Harriman. Dressed in a striking white silk brocade, she shunned jewelry, greeted guests with a white glove and a soft "Nice to see you." In the hotel's auditorium, Actor Fredric March and his actress wife Florence Eldridge read poetry favored by President Kennedy and excerpts from some of his most memorable speeches. March said beforehand that Kennedy "would have deplored sadness in any of us"; yet few could check tears as he recited Alan Seeger...
Throughout the week, Bobby maintained a solemn or at times sad look, whether watching Johnson and Humphrey accept the convention's nominations or attending a jampacked reception in his honor. The affair was hosted by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had only reluctantly backed Bobby for the New York Democratic senatorial nomination...
...worsen the situation and lead to disaster." If the efforts at U.N. mediation should fail, Papandreou added, the Cyprus problem should go to the General Assembly-exactly what Makarios wants, because he hopes that the Assembly will back his stand that repression of the Turkish Cypriots is an internal affair...
...that's all there is to it: an affair pretty much like any other affair. But in his first feature film Director Desmond Davis, a top-tick cameraman who shot Tom Jones and A Taste of Honey for Tony Richardson, has transformed a rather banal business into skillful cinema of sensibility, a warm and witty examination of a young girl changing painfully from a big child into a little woman...
...fall of Windfall brought other penny stocks crashing down with it. Many run-of-the-mine speculators took a hard dive last week, and even experienced investors took a stiff beating. Many companies in the Timmins area were able to put money in their treasuries before the Windfall affair, intend to go on drilling on the theory that one failure is not decisive. But the Windfall case could discourage the speculative buying that Canada needs to find mines, and it will probably produce legislation to introduce stricter regulation of the securities business, including full disclosure of insiders' dealings...