Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handy margins. But as the years passed and Nilde lived high on the remote Sacred Mountain, local Red leaders began to grumble: she spent too much time in Rome and neglected her own people. Legally married Communist wives resented Nilde's special position. Scurrilous jokes circulated about the affair of Togliatti, now 65, and Nilde, 38. And there was the question of the $64,000. In twelve years as a Deputy, Nilde Jotti had made only eight speeches, all brief and all cliches denouncing NATO "imperialism." The local Reds calculated that her pay for each of those eight speeches...
Altogether, seven members of the club were placed on probation or suspended for their part in the affair. Six others "were asked to withdraw...
...Cornell trip, in particular,--and the waste of time and money that it involved--seems to have been quite unnecessary. The day on which the affair was scheduled dawned rainy and cold in both Ithaca and Cambridge. Local weather forecasts in the two cities offered no hope of rapid improvement in these conditions...
...Honeychile bought herself a slave girl. "I'm from Georgia, you know, in the Deep South, and we used to have slaves there," explained Honeychile. "The sweet little girl was only 16, and her father wanted to sell her to some old man. I just jumped into the affair and outbid the other buyer." But Honeychile still has one problem: how to get her new possession into Austria...
Manhattan's love affair with the Moiseyev-running concurrently with Moscow's crush on U.S. Pianist Van Cliburn (TIME April 21-28)-went on offstage too. Every time the dancers left their Times Square hotel (where they insisted on making their own beds), they were followed by curious throngs, snapped by photographers, interviewed by newsmen. The girls went on Fifth Avenue shopping sprees, passed opinions about the chemise ("all right for the not too fat"), Americans ("very friendly"), Manhattan ("too noisy"), the Broadway musical West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed...