Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enigmatic South Vietnamese President. "As the West has left Thieu," the editor said, "Thieu has increasingly abandoned the West to withdraw into a historical autocracy. He sees fewer and fewer people, trusts fewer advisers, believes fewer friends. He has come to rule as if government is more a personal affair between himself and his God than between himself and his people...
...laid out the facts as he saw them, and we evaluated the facts as we saw them," Graham said. In his talk with executives at the Post and other organizations, Colby reportedly stressed that the sub affair was not yet over, that the CIA would try again this summer to raise the ship (the CIA brought only part of it to the surface last summer). By reporting the story, Colby said, news organizations would inform the Soviet Union about the salvage operation, and thus prevent its success...
...evidence that any organization tried carefully to establish, on its own, exactly why the CIA needed to recover the codes and warheads from a 17-year-old sub that sank seven years ago. Most of them apparently took the Colby briefings on the importance of the whole affair at face value. Jack Anderson found some experienced naval sources who scoffed at the intelligence value of the sub, which is one reason he felt free to break the news...
...myth and the reality take on many forms. The classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill the streets of Cambridge in their low-cut pastel dresses, as men walk by in their tight-fitting T-shirts, this unattached youth sighs in paralysis at the endless possibilities passing by Sadly the student pauses in the reading of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy to dream of the distant...
Capitalizing on the backlash from Yale's Shockley affair, Schickele managed to obtain permission to present his latest discovery (commissioned by the Harvard Band) at Sanders Theater last weekend. The piece, which he edited--"tastefully," he claims--and retitled Serenoodle for Northerly winds and Percussion, was not originally composed for the concert band. According to Schickele, Bach's original scoring called for "an Awful Lot of wind and Percussion Instruments," a rare combination in the composer's day, but one which the Harvard Band is admirably suited...