Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That quiet drama ended a 19½-month chase-one of the longest and most intensive in U.S. history-and climaxed a bizarre odyssey that had a special and disturbing fascination for Americans. They had been appalled by the violence of the whole affair: the strong-arm kidnaping near a college campus, then the bank robbery in which Patty herself wielded a gun, then the surrealistic, nationally televised shootout that left six of her companions dead. With some apprehension, parents debated just why Patty, the heiress to a celebrated fortune, had become a self-proclaimed revolutionary. Many people claimed...
...second thoughts on the Spassky case, the reason may be a desire to avoid new tensions in Soviet-French relations on the eve of the mid-October visit to Moscow by French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Moscow may also have been embarrassed by the attention the affair was attracting in the West, where it was being viewed as a test of whether the Soviets intend to live up to the "humanitarian" clauses of the Helsinki declaration signed by Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev last month. One clause of the agreement requires the Soviet Union to "examine favorably...
...Harvey Oswald dropped in at the bureau's Dallas office to deliver a threatening note. Not only did the Dallas FBI fail to put Oswald under surveillance, but FBI officials destroyed the note after Kennedy's death and then withheld all knowledge of the affair from the Warren Commission...
...genial village doctor. No one had ever pulled that trick, and there are purists who still argue that the author cheated. But if the device came as a revelation, the source should not have. Six years earlier, Christie had broken ground modestly in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles; the villain was the first and most obvious suspect, from whom attention had long since been diverted...
...career are several classics: The ABC Murders is a fiendish triple trap, Murder in the Clouds, a sleek variant of the locked-room ploy set in the cabin of a small airplane, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, a neat bit of one-upmanship on Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair...