Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit to the U.S. of Vice-Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, the 60-year-old eldest son of Nationalist China President Chiang Kaishek, was meant to be a quiet affair. He was the guest of Secretary of State William Rogers, who visited Taiwan last summer and invited the general to meet top officials of the Nixon Administration at his convenience. Chiang, the shy, tough head of Taiwan's secret police, dined at the White House but had no private talks with the President. Although his government is unhappy about recent U.S. overtures to Red China, there apparently was no urgent...
Like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Jane Howard (Mrs. Kingsley Amis) constructs her novel by pairing off her people with a series of outsiders and observing the consequences-in this case, a miscarriage, a Riviera love affair and a slow poisoning. Like Evelyn Waugh, the author believes that fate has the blind staggers. She takes peculiar delight in showing that there is no justice in the distribution of misery and joy, no allowance made for innocence or effort. Alice, for example, succeeds in escaping her father's house-but ends up unhappily married in a "luxury bungalow with Spanish-style touches...
Love Feast. Despite Kirk's retreat, he had profited from the bizarre affair. For one thing, he won for his cause a powerful friend in court: the Justice Department. The Nixon Administration sought desperately to defuse the situation and avoid confronting the maverick Republican Governor with troops. Before Kirk caved in, Attorney General John Mitchell, in what one Kirk aide called a "love feast," talked by phone with the Governor at least a dozen times. Kirk had the Administration boxed in: almost any federal show of force would have hurt Nixon in the South...
With the mid-point of his four-year term at hand, the love affair between Canadians and their dashing Prime Minister is undergoing a transition. As Trudeau methodically went about planning his "Just Society" during his first 22 months in office, old problems persisted-inflation, regionalism, Quebec separatism. Some Canadians grew weary of the image of their Prime Minister as social pacesetter. "I have had it up to here," said a recent letter writer in a Toronto newspaper, "with pictures of our charismatic Prime Minister on vacation, smiling affably and benignly in his impeccable ski suit at some invariably exclusive...
...incipient cancer) at the height of the A-bomb scare of the 50's. The tablets, called Dianazene, were seized by the Food and Drug Administration and found to contain only vitamins and minerals-certainly not a sufficient defense against cancer or radioactivity. Apparently, however, little came of the affair and Dianazene hasn't been heard of again...