Word: affair
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...whose practitioners regularly evaluate the performance of others. We have been scrutinizing our colleagues-and sometimes ourselves-in our Press section since our first issue in 1923. This week in our cover story, we undertake the admittedly difficult task of examining the role of the press in the Watergate affair, a topic that arouses considerable passion among readers as well as journalists. In an accompanying Essay, we further consider the moral problems faced by the press, its future tasks and its role in the American system. It is a subject about which TIME, as a participant, can scarcely claim neutrality...
...affair was proving to be more taxing than Madame le Maire had budgeted for. Still "it is rare that a mother gets the pleasure of marrying her own son," said Baronne Alix de Rothschild last week as, in her capacity as mayor of the little Norman village of Reux, she prepared to wed her son David, 31, to Italian Heiress Olimpia Aldobrandini, 18. After the public town-hall ceremony and a religious service, the megamillion merger was to be toasted by the pick of tout Paris, many of them brought to the baronne's cháteau by special...
Beyond its picaresque aspects and the individual investors' losses, the Home-Stake affair has broader implications. Officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission worry that such glittery schemes are siphoning away investment capital needed badly by legitimate businesses to expand or modernize their enterprises. Late last week the SEC issued an unusual public warning to investors not to fall for "get-rich-quick schemes, promising spectacular returns without any basis of fact." It came too late, of course, for the people who invested in Home-Stake...
...first, Elisabeth is elated by the possibilities of independence. But if marriage to her husband was crippling, she is helpless outside it. She moves in with a pregnant friend, lives modestly, looks for work, has an intermittent affair with an engineer (Martin Luttge). She gets a series of routine jobs (sales assistant, secretary, typist, guide) and tries to give modest shape to childhood dreams of becoming a musical-comedy actress by taking singing and dancing lessons...
...Santoni, who insisted that the cardinal's visit was entirely platonic. "He was fully dressed," she reportedly told the paper. "[He] collapsed after climbing the four stories to my flat." She seemed unimpressed by all the furor: "Too much fuss is being made about this quite unimportant affair...