Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moneda, Chile's White House. Carmen went home to tell her husband what she had done. He wasted no time on reproaches, hurried off to confess the whole business to his commander. Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
...wind up the affair, Prosecutor Nogues recommended five years' imprisonment for Vergara, three years' banishment for Ibañez and fines of 50,000 pesos ($1,175) each. For the officers he asked lighter terms; for the noncoms, only two months' military arrest. At week's end President González, who knows a danger signal when he sees one, was pushing through Congress a 20% pay raise for the armed forces...
Variety bluntly headlined that MET OTELLO PREEM FIZZLES, and grumbled that "it was a mediocre affair" bringing out "the static quality of opera at its worst." Variety saw no TV future for opera until it was "devised specially for the medium. It will need new sets, new costumes, new staging, new makeup. And new singers. Singers who look the part as well as sing it. Otherwise-video speaking-it rates...
...good friend of my friend Christopher Robin, dictated this letter to me and asked that it be published. He is rather upset about the whole affair...
Barbara Fitzgerald, sophomore vicepresident and chairman of the affair, announced the Christmas supper committee's decision. She added that a higher ticket price and the submission of only one manuscript in the story contest also influenced the move. Tickets already purchased will be refunded...