Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University changes, the nature of Junior Parents Weekend will have to be reassessed every year. A combined Harvard-Radcliffe parents weekend is one possibility, but in terms of numbers it would be a complicated affair. Perhaps then, it is best that Junior Parents Weekend remain a strictly Radcliffe affair. For me the fact that last weekend was Radcliffe Junior Parents Weekend and not Harvard Weekend, was one of the main points of appeal. I remember my first day here President Bunting addressed us in Agassiz theater and told us that with the new merger plans this might be the only...
Sudsville-usually a small, vaguely Midwestern town-is a highly structured social community and a highly ordered moral universe. Evil is eventually punished there, even if it takes years, and good finally emerges triumphant after a prolonged purgatory. "If a man has an affair," says Nick Nicholson, producer of The Edge of Night on CBS, "he has to have a good reason for it. Then he should feel guilty and suffer so that we can salvage him. Finally, he has to do something noble; then the audience will feel better about him. The bonds of marriage on our show...
Died. Basil O'Connor, 80, founder of the March of Dimes; in Phoenix. Research into the cause and treatment of polio was a poorly financed, haphazard affair when O'Connor and his crippled law partner Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president...
...PRESS played up Nixon's trip as a big victory--and in a sense it was. He met the "Red Menace" head on in a tete-a-tete affair reasonably conceding failures of cold war policy and military defeat to the enemy and yet coming out of it all as the big front-runner for the November elections. Once again he proved himself to be a true media wizard by his quiet, almost unnoticed, burial of the Dulles-Rusk containment ideology. The basis of this strategy rested on a lie: the creation of the fear that the Communist Chinese would...
...France in 1968, a high school teacher named Gabrielle Russier fell in love with one of her students. He was 17 and thus legally a minor. His parents invoked the law to thwart the affair, at one point having Miss Russier arrested and even sending the boy to a sanitarium. After several months, Miss Russier took her own life in desperation. The episode became a cause celebre in France and the subject of at least three books...