Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy claimed that his withdrawal was chiefly motivated by concern for his family. But the Chappaquiddick affair, in which Mary Jo Kopechne died some time during the night of July 18-19, 1969, obviously was a crucial factor. Anticipating his candidacy and spurred by an effective New York Times Magazine piece by Robert Sherrill last July re-examining the case, several major news organizations had sent reporters to the tiny island across from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. TIME'S own preliminary probe turned up facts that contradicted key points in Kennedy's version of what happened...
...Dreyfus Affair forms the historical background for Dreyfus in Rehearsal, a new play previewing in Boston prior to a Broadway debut later this month. The script, adopted from the French by Director Garson Kanin, is the story of a play-within-a-play. The scene is Vilna, Poland, 1931. An amateur Jewish theatrical group is rehearsing an original play by its director about the Dreyfus incident...
...director of this amateur play has his problems. No one but he seems to understand the relevance of the Dreyfus Affair to the situation of the Jews in Poland. The actor playing Dreyfus doesn't feel adequate to play his role. The other actors all want bigger parts, and a few song and dance routines to lighten up the story...
...burglary. The Star management and staff, and many others in Indianapolis, regard the charge as a spurious attempt to discredit the exposes. Pearcy is up for re-election this fall, and though the Star usually supports Republicans, it has attacked his record. "This is a trumped-up affair and the prosecutor knows it," says Managing Editor Robert Early. "It's nothing but goddamned hokum." Says Douglass R. Shortridge, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association: "If this is the prosecutor's answer to criticism, then it is a sad day for our community...
...were later burned by Union soldiers. Lincoln's papers were turned over to the Government by his son with the stipulation that the letters would not be accessible to the public until 1947. Warren G. Harding's papers disappeared after his sudden death following the Teapot Dome affair, then turned up mysteriously years later in his home town of Marion, Ohio. Though 25 Presidents or their families handed over their documents to the Library of Congress free of charge, Congress paid at least $190,000 for the documents of some of the early Presidents. Chief Executives from Herbert...