Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Save the Tiger 2:15 p.m., 6, 9:45; The Mattei Affair...
When Cook was brought under crossexamination, the strong case that he had built against Stans began to weaken. Bonner got Cook to admit that he had lied about the Vesco affair to various authorities not three times, as he had testified, but seven-including four times after he had told Stans he was going to tell the truth. The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries. Asked by Fleming if he was not lying in court to save himself from prosecution by the Government, Cook said: "I am not lying...
...before Stans called him to suggest a switch. Further, Cook acknowledged that he had brought up the matter of Vesco's mysterious $250,000 three times to Stans. Why should Cook have done that? The defense left the implication that Cook had been trying to use the Vesco affair to try to pressure Stans into supporting...
...musical categories in their appeal. He has had 20 hit singles and eleven bestselling albums, and now he is a multimillionaire. A month ago at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles, the record industry's equivalent of the annual Oscar presentations, he came close to turning the affair into a one-man show by copping four major awards. The prizes included best pop vocal performance by a male for his interpretation of his own song, You Are the Sunshine of My Life, and album of the year for Wonder's most recent LP, Innervisions...
...Miami Herald interviewer. "My husband and another man." But fate had other plans. The plump twelve-year-old who belted out Caro Nome on the Original Amateur Hour grew up to be the most famous opera singer of her generation, a tempestuous diva whose emotional pyrotechnics and lengthy affair with Aristotle Onassis often attracted as much attention as her vocal virtuosity...