Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turbulent '60s, students frequently went on strike to protest such weighty matters as the war in Southeast Asia, the draft or national political problems. Last week students at Brown University took to the picket line to speak out on what is strictly a campus affair: the school's projected budget cuts and the lack of any student voice in the decision to slash expenses...
...Constant Wife, Bergman is Constance Middleton, an amiable, idle woman who plays hostess to life in a well-appointed drawing room. Her husband John (Jack Gwillim) is a prosperous Harley Street surgeon who is having an affair with Constance's best friend, a blonde married flibbertigibbet. Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told. But friends will tell...
...university officials held the line. Whether or not Hornig kept his budget a purely rational affair, and not a political one--as maintained repeatedly during two months of give-and-take--he succeeded in satisfying students without compromising his original budget priorities...
...Radcliffe Club of Boston has chosen today's GBCs to simulate the famed English Henley Regatta in a scholarship fundraising affair. Master-mind of the benefit, Virginia Mannick '49, said yesterday, "We hope to raise $5000 in scholarships with about 300 people attending the post-race luncheon...
...said it couldn't be done. I thought you couldn't beat the American press," chided retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, 77, who had just emerged from 18 days of seclusion with his daughter, Soviet Actress Victoria Fyodorova, 29. The child of a wartime love affair between Tate, then a U.S. naval captain in Moscow, and Actress Zoya Fyodorova, Victoria met her father for the first time on March 23. Her visit to the U.S., and the pair's successful retreat to a Florida hideaway, had been arranged and paid for by the gossipy National Enquirer...