Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stans did not try to refute two perjury counts accusing him of lying to a federal grand jury about his role in the Vesco affair. Instead, Stans' lawyers tried to show that he was under such severe mental stress because of his wife's serious illness at the time that he could not be held accountable for his answers. The prosecutors challenged the admissibility of this evidence, and the jury was excused as the lawyers argued the point. Suddenly Stans lost his buoyant composure, burying his face in his hands, his shoulders shaking with emotion. When Judge...
This incident of scientific fakery, described in C.P. Snow's 1960 novel The Affair, was fiction. But the drama now unfolding at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is real. In 1970 Dr. William Summerlin, 35, reported that he had discovered a way that might make it possible to circumvent the immune-system reaction that causes the body to reject transplanted tissues or organs. Last week he stood accused by his colleagues of faking at least some of his later experiments, and was suspended from S.K.I, while a panel of scientists investigated the charges against...
...charges on which Dwight Chapin was convicted was for his claimed failure to remember details of his dealings with Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. The legal theory traces back to the Queen's case in 1820, in which a footman was suspected of having had a lengthy affair with Queen Caroline. Questioned about the matter, a fellow servant in a position to know claimed that he did not remember. The Lord Chancellor ruled he could be convicted of perjury if the court reasonably concluded he should have remembered. Thereupon his memory swiftly improved, and the principle was established...
Though this affair has been dismissed as a bagatelle by most biographers, the release by Jefferson's descendants in 1944 of 25 letters from Mrs. Cosway established beyond doubt that Tom and Maria had been deeply in love. At their parting, wrote Jefferson, he was "rent into fragments by the force of my grief." The letters were, in Brodie's words, "missives of such ineffable tenderness that they constitute the most remarkable collection of love letters in the history of the American presidency...
Even after publication of the billets doux, students of Jefferson described the affair as a platonic flirtation, despite Jefferson's classic love letter known as "My Head and My Heart." Written in one of his all too frequent depressions, it is an elegiac disquisition on the miracle of love-by a rationalist who did not believe in miracles...