Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot believe your staff would have intentionally permitted a completely unfounded slap at the Kansas City Star in the story on Primitive Garcia [Dec. 8]. The story says, "Though both Kansas City newspapers virtually ignored the affair. . ." and then proceeds to give two women the credit for stirring public attention and contributions. The Star and Times coverage consisted of 19 stories (seven on Page 1), two editorials and 45 inches of letters in our public-mind column...
...Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years of stalemate, the Yemeni civil war appeared finally to be reaching the climax that Nasser's intervention had so long managed to delay-but not to deny...
...Call for Courage. This affair, coming after a long series of army arrests and harassment of the clergy, moved the central committee of the Brazilian Conference of Bishops to action. After a three-day meeting of its 22 bishops in Rio de Janeiro, it issued a statement warning the government that it had no right to "define and limit" church functions. "The present situation must be faced courageously," said the bishops...
...competition consists of four other computers ranging from the IBM 1401, which Dix describes as "old and uninteresting" and which is now used principally for printing output; to the IBM 360-50, a more modern affair which, among its other duties, analyzes data from the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; to the two IBM 7094's, giant computers which solve complex problems in organized batches, hence the title "batch-processing...
Though both Kansas City papers virtually ignored the affair, it did not go unnoticed by Mrs. Helen Dow, 61, and her friend Mrs. Virginia McCray, 45. Hoping to raise a few hundred dollars to help the Garcias with hospital and funeral expenses, the two women, at last count, had collected $14,200 from more than 1,500 donors. Mrs. Kindermann's fifth-grade class needed no prompting to write Primitivo in the hospital. "I am thanking you for saving Mrs. Kindermann's life and her baby," wrote one girl. "Our room is learning Spanish. Our city...