Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington march for peace has become a highly ritualized affair -something that an anthropologist might call a "cultic in-gathering," an annual coming together that is part circus, part festival, part political mass meeting. Last week its time came round again, and in balmy spring weather a crowd estimated by police at 200,000 -one of Washington's largest ever -streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue to assemble before the west front of the U.S. Capitol. On the same day, in San Francisco, 125,000 demonstrators formed a six-mile parade down Geary Boulevard into Golden Gate Park; they were...
...camping." Finally Government lawyers, presumably having decided that arresting several hundred men who had fought in Viet Nam would be politically un wise, went back to Judge Hart and asked him to rescind the injunction. An indignant Hart did so, observing: "The judiciary has been degraded by this whole affair. I don't think it could have been handled worse." He added: "You have put the Viet Nam veterans in a situation of openly defying the courts of this country." Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, said that the President had not "specifically" asked that the camping...
...American table tennis team jetted home from China last week, their trip was still causing reverberations among U.S. adversaries and allies alike. A somewhat shaken Soviet diplomat offered TIME a dyspeptic view of the whole affair: "Mao invites a bunch of your Ping Pong players, and Chou offers them lemonade, rice cookies and a free trip to the Chinese wall. Mao could not have made a better public relations move even if he had denounced his own sayings and told the world he was Mr. Henry Ford's secret business partner. This is not foreign policy. It just shows...
...official attitude to Premier Chou En-lai's comment that a "new page" had been opened in Sino-American relations. Said Rogers: "We would hope that it becomes a new chapter." President Nixon pointedly called in Team Leader Steenhoven to congratulate him on his role in the affair. Steenhoven himself waited until he was home in Detroit to announce the next step, an American tour "in the near future" by a Chinese table tennis team...
...boards. (Between shows, he used to concoct the tantalizing puzzles on the back pages of New York magazine.) Thanks to the theatrical interests of his mother, an interior decorator known to friends as "Foxy," Stephen easily became a social caterpillar on the Manhattan show-biz party circuit. At one affair he met Playwright Arthur Laurents, who was reworking Romeo and Juliet in modern dress. Lenny Bernstein was doing the music, said Laurents. The lyricist? There was none at present...