Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been all that original in the U.S. Congress, but the public confession certainly was. After two days of lying about it, Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays stood in an unusually hushed House chamber and admitted that he had carried on an affair with Elizabeth Ray, 33, whom he employed as a $14,000-a-year committee clerk although she claims that she can neither type nor file. The portly Congressman, 65, who in January divorced one wife after 38 years of marriage and six weeks ago wed his secretary, denied only that Miss Ray's federal salary was awarded...
...social circles. He married his patrician cousin Eleanor in 1905, kept his dining tables and drawing rooms decorated with bright young women from Chestnut Hill and Tuxedo Park, and from 1913 until the day he died in 1945 carried on a secret but by now much-publicized affair with Lucy Mercer, a daughter of Maryland gentry and for a time Eleanor's personal secretary...
After New York Times Reporter Nan Robertson got hold of Potter's manuscript and broke the story last week, Schiff denied through her lawyer, Morris Abram, that she had ever had "a romance or an affair" with Roosevelt. But Potter-a fiftyish author of a children's book and a 1973 volume on oil spills, as well as a sometime escort of SchifFs-says that her remarks came from long taped conversations he held with her over the past two years. Publisher John J. Geoghegan reports that Schiff has twice read the galieys of Potter's manuscript...
...leaders to contend with. After all, he benefited from sealed-room politics in 1974, when the L.D.P. bosses, rocked by scandal, and factionalism, turned to him as a compromise candidate to succeed the disgraced Tanaka. Now, too, compromise could be the key concept. One possible outcome of the entire affair: party leaders would agree to let Miki stay in office until the Lockheed investigation is concluded-but only if he agrees to step down as Premier before the general elections...
...rebound. His quick outlet pass nestled into senior Mufi Hannemann's arms. The tall power-forward dribbled up court and proceeded to drill a bullet to "Dr. J." at the top of the key. The good doctor swooshed in the 25-foot jumper to win the tense IAB affair...