Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week) 2. The Group, McCarthy (2) 3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3) 4. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6) 5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4) 6. The Martyred, Kim (5) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8) 8. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (7) 9. The Fanatic, Levin 10. The Night of the Generals, Kirst...
...northeastern corner of India last week, 300 people died in Hindu-Moslem riots. Had only a fraction of such religious or racial violence happened in the U.S., there would have been international headlines. But the Indian killings were a minor affair compared with the 1947 partition riots that took more than 100,000 Indian and Pakistani lives...
...Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher took on the Burton. After 24 months as the world's most famous lovers, the seemingly (or unseemlily) inseparable couple made it legal in Montreal at a Unitarian ceremony attended only by eleven of their dearest employees. It was a hush-hush, rush-rush affair, for which they secretly flew up from Toronto-where Dick is doing Hamlet-in a chartered Viscount. By 2:20 that afternoon, here came the bride, all dressed in yellow chiffon, topped by a nuptial hairdo that featured a 34-in., hyacinth-entwined coil of hair. Then, slipping a circlet...
...Affair of Honor. Calumet desperately needs another Citation or a Bull Lea Jr. From their showing in the Hutcheson Stakes, Ky. Pioneer or Kentucky Jug just might fill the bill. The early Kentucky Derby favorites are George Pope Jr.'s California colt, Hill Rise (odds: 5 to 2), which ran away with the $132,400 Santa Anita Derby and is undefeated in six straight starts, and Edward P. Taylor's Canadian-bred Northern Dancer (7 to 2), which won Florida's $138,200 Flamingo Stakes...
...Preakness and Belmont Stakes Winner Nashua; Jug (20 to 1), of the famed stud horse, Alibhai. Both are being groomed for the Derby in classic Calumet fashion-slowly, gently, painstakingly. To Owner Markey and Trainer Jones, winning the Kentucky Derby in the past has always been more an affair of honor than of money. "I would rather win the Derby than all the races in the world," says Mrs. Markey. This year, she may have...