Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only by one touch of staleness: "I am rather tired of caviar...
...living room of a Viet Cong representative in Pnompenh, the capital of Cambodia. While reporters, photographers and onlookers milled around, a bespectacled man named Nguyen Van Hieu, the representative in Cambodia of the National Liberation Front and a member of its Central Committee, brought off the elaborately staged affair like an experienced master of ceremonies. In a move obviously calculated to encourage dissent against the Viet Nam war in the U.S., the Viet Cong "symbolically" turned over three U.S. prisoners of war to an American antiwar activist, Thomas Hayden. The hope was, said Hieu piously, that the three soldiers would...
Only 200 demonstrators marched from the church to Post Office Square for the ceremonial surrender and rally. Sponsors of the affair--The Resistance, the Boston Draft Resistance Group, and the Boston Committee of Religious Concern for Peace--had expected...
Some observers view School Committee affairs as a morality play in which the CCA members are the good guys and the Independents, the forces of evil. Last year's "Stokeley affair" was a good instance of this polarization. The Independents voted not to let the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats use the City's Rindge Tech auditorium for a speech by Stokely Carmichael. All three CCA members defended Carmichael's right of free speech and forced two votes on the issue, both of which they lost. The votes fell the same way in a bitter battle last winter over 13 budget...
...took the Faculty two hours to debate the fate of the anti-Dow demonstrators. At 6 p.m., professors were heading for the doors, and President Pusey was anxious to be done with the whole affair. He had chaired the meeting with evident brusqueness, clearly had little enthusiasm for prolonged discussion of the Mallinckrodt business, and he had a press conference scheduled for 6:15. Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, rose to make a motion...