Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three books published this year by former Post executives, none reflects the ugliness more graphically than Otto Friedrich's Decline and Fall (Harper & Row; $10). The others-Matthew J. Culligan's The Curtis-Culligan Story (Crown) and Martin S. Ackerman's The Curtis Affair (Nash)-are by two former presidents of the Post's parent, the Curtis Publishing Co. Though reputed swashbucklers in business, Culligan and Ackerman are plodders in print, offering little more than inarticulate exercises in self-justification. Former Managing Editor Friedrich's book is not without self-praise, but for the most...
...course, we have witnessed a fair number of attempts to "explain" the Harvard strike, relate it to ensuing events, speculate on its relevance to the "youth movement," and bundle up the whole affair in a neat little package. We have suffered through the compressed political and sociological tract that demands a remarkable suspension of basic intellectual instincts; muddled through the straight-forward factual account whose tedious details could only interest those who were deeply involved in them; and marveled at the bizarre near-hysteria of the participant who later bared his soul in print...
Full Pay. But mainly the polychromatic rally, with its shimmering flow of blue, red, green and yellow hats amid thousands of American flags, was a festive affair, accenting the positive in a kind of workers' Woodstock. Banners proclaimed GOD BLESS AMERICA and the demonstrators chanted, "All the Way with the U.S.A.!" Martial music, including From the Halls of Montezuma and The Caissons Go Rolling Along, rekindled the World War II spirits of middle-aged workers. Flag-waving demonstrators clung precariously to the uncomfortable tops of moving concrete mixers...
Even so, the 249-page report is a devastating condemnation of the entire law-enforcement handling of the affair. In light of the actions of the state's attorney's men who conducted the raid and the officials who investigated it, concluded the jury, there is "reasonable basis for public doubt of their efficiency or even their credibility." Among the findings...
From the start, Calvert, 49, knew he was dealing with a generation "more sophisticated and better educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...