Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western diplomats sometimes use Soviet bugs for their own purposes. They may feed them false information or use them to needle a top Russian agent they would like to get rid of, either by suggesting he is on the U.S. payroll or hinting he is having an affair with some Soviet minister's wife. In fact, skeptics wondered last week why such old-fashioned bugs had remained immune so long to modern detection devices. Was it because the U.S. knew the mikes were there and employed them to plant phony data? And why did the U.S. choose this particular...
...steps of Moors Hall to a bored though politely appreciative audience. Not until the Harvard Glee Club sang three lively numbers was there any sign of group spirit and real enjoyment. Spring of the year, the Yard, and assembled students create the opportunity for a gay and happy affair. When will the weeping dirges go back into the dark interiors of Memorial Hall and lighter, more appropriate concerts happen in the Yard? Peter Bergh, G.S.D...
...Venetian Affair, MacInnes...
...Global Affair. As an obscure U.N. employee who has been nursing a closetful of computers, Bob Hope blinks in dismay at his new assignment: the care and feeding of a blonde baby girl, abandoned in the U.N. lobby. "You've got the wrong man," burbles Bob. "I didn't even go to the Christmas party." Nevertheless he takes the tyke home to his bachelor flat, powders her with confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident...
...guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity and understanding, despite such gimmicks as a walk-on role by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Stooped, sage and sober, the ambassador looks like a man who knows the U.N. will survive even this sad Affair...