Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ways of doing so. When Hardouvelis eats at the Union, conversation at his table is constantly interrupted by Greek and Turkish students who stop by to say hello. Several foreign students have formed an international women's organization that meets weekly at Lowell House for lunch, "a purely social affair," one of the group's organizers says...
...approximately 500). As this group awaits the news, groups with numbers lower than theirs are getting into Dunster as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or maybe even 5th choice. So our unhappy group of Dunster Diehards see their shattered hopes filled with people who are half-assed about the whole affair but just happened to be numerically graced. Under the old system, these Diehards would at least have been supplanted by applicants of similar enthusiasm. Now, let's consider a case where the House in question is under-subscribed, such as Currier. These groups who put it as their first choice...
...liaison with Meyer while he was President lasted nearly two years and even included some pot smoking in the White House bedroom. "She was not the kind of person to get into a dalliance," insists one old friend of the Meyer family. "This wasn't some tawdry affair." Meyer was killed in 1964 at the age of 43, the victim of a Georgetown mugging. According to Truitt's account, James Angleton, then CIA counterintelligence chief, managed to find and destroy the artist's diary before it could cause any trouble...
...medical implications, it was certain someone would write a book about the Sloan-Kettering scandal. What was not inevitable was a book as well wrought as The Patchwork Mouse. Hixson, a former newspaper reporter and public information officer at S.K.I., has gone beyond the emotionalism of the Summerlin affair to take a hard look at the promises and problems of big-league research. The result is a cautionary tale that no scientist-or layman-can afford to ignore...
...Where cancer is concerned, money tends to go to experimenters with positive track records. As The Patchwork Mouse illustrates, such lopsided philanthropy leads not only to personal tragedy but scandalous science. The dangers of a system fueled by anxiety and dependent on immediate success cannot be exaggerated. The Summerlin affair was only the handwriting; Hixson is worried about the wall itself...