Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile has seemed personally to belong to Harvard's Ric Rojas of late, and the junior is favored again this weekend. There are, however, a surfeit of sub-nine-minute two milers to contend with, so the race could be a wide-open affair, as could the mile with John Quirk...
...wife of a tax inspector who has been charged with fraud insisted that the government look into the income tax returns of three former Cabinet ministers. The politicians promptly sued for libel, but even the cautious Paris daily Le Monde felt compelled to ask for an investigation of "this affair, which is not only dangerous for the Gaullist majority, but discredits the regime and besmirches the state...
...Sulzberger memo also acknowledged, but did not spell out, problems "of our own making." For decades the Times was run like a cozy family affair. The opportunity to acquire a TV station was ignored 25 years ago. Staff was allowed to expand with little concern for the cost. Says Punch Sulzberger: "When I first came here [1955], there was no budget." Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Punch's father, would share profit-and-loss figures with only three other top executives because, as his son says, "It was no one else's business." According to Sulzberger, then-Managing Editor Turner...
...mile always seems to shape up as a wide open affair at Big Three meets and this year is no exception. Both Yale and Princeton have sub-4:10 milers to challenge the favorite, Harvard's John Quirk. The 600, however, should be a Crimson strongpoint with Nick Leone coming off a very fast 1:09.9 GBC win, and only a two man entry rule preventing a possible Harvard sweep...
Unlike the Watergate case, there has been no lack of aggressiveness by either prosecution or defense. The Government is assiduously prosecuting Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, but it insists that the Pentagon papers affair is a narrow case of espionage, theft and conspiracy. The defense, meanwhile, has sought to litigate the causes and ills of the Viet Nam War. As a result, the opposing attorneys have spent an increasing amount of time arguing with Matt Byrne...