Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irving was acting out of chivalry or more self-serving motives. It was possible, some investigators said, that Irving hoped to ease Edith's legal burdens before she broke down and told her own side of the story, partly in anger over her husband's now famous affair with Danish Singer Nina van Pallandt...
Then, too, Irving may be hoping that out of the Hughes affair he will get an even better story than the billionaire's "confessions" he tried to peddle. Speaking of that book on the whole affair, says his friend, Jim Sherwood, "he told me, 'Jim, it's going to be a marvelous book!' And he ticks off the chapters as they happen each day." On another occasion, Irving told his former lawyer, Martin Ackerman, that "someone up there"-pointing skyward-was following him and filming his life...
None of the Above. The absence of issues last week made a rather dull affair out of what normally in an election year would be a highly charged political confrontation-the annual hearings of the congressional Joint Economic Committee. The committee's Democrats zeroed in on the current unemployment rate of nearly 6%, the Administration's gravest economic problem by far. Stein argued that Nixon had inaugurated "the strongest program to reduce unemployment that there ever has been in this country." It includes, he said, not only a huge, employment-building deficit in the federal budget, but also...
...Family Affair. Save for Janet and Susan Corrock, the surprise bronze medalist in the women's downhill, midway through the competition it seemed that the 131-member U.S. team might be headed for one of its worst showings ever. "The trouble with you Yanks," said one widely quoted Norwegian athlete, "is that you're too soft. Your life is too easy...
...that point, the gold fever became contagious. Going into the women's slalom, the U.S.'s hopes hinged on Marilyn and Barbara Cochran, the two sisters who with brother Bob made the U.S. ski team something of a family affair. The sisters' chances were quickly halved, however, when Marilyn, 22, snagged a gate in her first run and tumbled out of the race. Then, out of the snow flurries came Barbara, 21. Cutting corners dangerously close, she whizzed home with the fastest time in the first of the two heats. Refusing to look at her competitors lest...