Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting began, he attended another grand party at the Kahala home of Clare Boothe Luce, where more than 600 business, civic and political leaders of Hawaii enjoyed a mixed buffet of sushi, sashimi, shrimp, king crab and smoked salmon. Everyone laughed when Nixon declared: "This is not a political affair...
Desolated. For a while, it had seemed possible that Heinemann would declare open a somewhat diminished affair. In a painful contretemps similar to the South African situation in 1968, most black African nations-and several key U.S. black athletes-had threatened to boycott the Olympics rather than compete with Rhodesia, a nation of strict apartheid policies. After five days of agonizing deliberations, the International Olympic Committee voted narrowly (36 to 31, with three abstentions) to expel Rhodesia from the Munich games well after the 44-man team had arrived expecting to compete...
From the beginning, the idea was to make the biggest, costliest and most widely seen sports spectacular in history an "intimate affair." It seems an improbable feat, but the organizers of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich were resolved to resist "gargantuism," to emphasize the "human scale," and to build an "anti-monument sports complex" in a green setting with a "minimum of travel." Most important for a community that other Germans call "Weltstadt mit Herz" (Metropolis with a Heart) there must be a "touch of gaiety in the air." The goal, says Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic...
...built with 80% of its structure underground lest it appear too imposing. A kind of super sunken bath, it has five pools on two levels, and amenities like a glass-enclosed express elevator to the high-diving platform. Over a nearby ridge is the cycle stadium, a space-age affair that looks as if it could land on the Sea of Tranquillity. The main walkway in the Olympic Park is more down to earth. Called Spielstrasse (Play Street), it is a kind of carnival midway with restaurant, beer garden, refreshment booths, street theaters, pantomimists, painters, puppet shows, oompah-pah bands...
Naughty, Naughty. Throughout, the convention played for the cameras. The entire affair was so tightly organized that many observers began to sense the presence of a detailed script somewhere. It surfaced on Tuesday morning when mimeographed copies were accidentally delivered to the networks and to the BBC. G.O.P. messengers were immediately ordered to retrieve the scripts. The BBC people refused to yield theirs. "Extraordinary," commented Charles Wheeler, BBC'S chief American correspondent, as he examined the document. "How do you Americans say it? Really a screw-up." Republican Committee Staffer Kit Wisdom tried to grab the pages from Wheeler...