Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cooped-Up Rebels. Though one of his forebears had been appointed the first resident consul in Canton by President James Madison, it was mostly wanderlust that led the Missouri-born Snow into a lifelong love affair with China. After earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and working as a reporter briefly in Kansas...
...Joan (Par amount, $9.96; two LPs). The cast recording of a 1971 off -Broadway show based on the legend that Joan's life was spared by substituting another girl at the stake. Though hardly an orthodox look at Joan (among other things, she has a love affair with a farmer), Survival comes across well enough on disk, largely because the group Smokerise manages to operate within the rock mainstream (Beatles to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and still have something original...
...several weeks, Howard Hughes himself had been curiously receding from the affair, while the Clifford Irvings & Co. dominated the scene. Last week the billionaire re-entered the bizarre drama. In an operation only slightly less complicated than the Berlin airlift, he moved his entire headquarters from Paradise Island in the Bahamas to Managua, Nicaragua...
...general, the cause of the Crimson's irritation over the meet was the organization, and most of the blame for the poorly run affair was placed on the meet's director, Charles Batterman, who, oddly enough, is also the MIT coach. "Our big complaint was that there was no format for the meet," said Kenney. "He (Batterman) changed it as he went along...
Harvard Stephens '73, one of the coordinators of the affair and a resident of Quincy House, denied the rumors, saying that "no one was barred from coming in." He indicated, however, that whites were asked to leave the dining hall. Douglas E. Harris '72 and Stephen C. Pitts '74, both of Mather House, were present at the event and both agreed...