Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Hughes affair, already one of the more mysterious episodes in publishing history, grew still more bewildering last week. New questions surrounding the reclusive billionaire's supposed autobiography arced between Manhattan and a Swiss banking house on Zurich's Paradeplatz. For the moment, the puzzlements were sufficient to persuade McGraw-Hill and LIFE to announce that they were "holding in abeyance action on the publication of the Howard Hughes manuscript"-which had been scheduled to be excerpted in LIFE'S Feb. 11, 18 and 25 issues and to appear in book form on March...
...that the woman, a 31-year-old psychologist named Karen Cooper, was protesting the government's handling of an urban renewal project in London's historic Covent Garden market, not Britain's joining the Common Market. But on a day devoted to symbolic ceremony, the affair could be viewed as an unhappy omen of the sort of political accident that can still upset the plans of Britain and its partners on their way to market in Europe...
...trade and cultural fair in the International Amphitheater in Chicago, the audience was screaming for Geraldine even before Flip came on. "There was such a massive outpouring of love and appreciation that it overwhelmed the cat and broke him down," remembers the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who helped organize the affair...
...residents of Eucla, the affair was great fun. Not surprisingly, they kept reporting new traces of the mysterious nymph. Last week Patupis proposed to capitalize on Eucla's newfound notoriety by building a vast tourist complex, complete with gambling casino. After all, he reasoned, "we must not let this worldwide publicity go down the drain...
...would be pleasant to report that all rumors of the maestro's decline are greatly exaggerated. But they are not. No 20th century artist - not even Dali - went down so fast. The homage at the Cultural Center is a lugubrious affair, but an interesting one nevertheless; for it records in great detail how one gifted painter went backward under pressure, like an irritated crab, into a historical impasse - and has stuck there ever since, snapping his crusty pincers at every stir in the water...