Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although freshmen are allowed to dress as they please for the Li'l Abner affair, they are urged to remain within the statutory limits...
...shape given it by Adnan Menderes. His energy is seemingly inexhaustible. Out of bed by 6 a.m. at the latest, he heads off without breakfast on an hour to two-hour hike that invariably includes at least one hill. His workday is a 12-to 19-hour affair, punctuated by impulsive trips into the countryside to inspect one of his projects. Out of long experience, his bodyguards always keep packed bags at the office, and Turkish Airlines is instructed to hold open at least two seats on every Ankara-Istanbul flight. Along with his energy goes a monumental memory...
...gloomy basement room in Ottawa's Parliament Building, the House of Commons External Affairs Committee gathered one day last week to probe into a contentious affair: Why had the Canadian government abruptly canceled plans to rent space for its various agencies in Canada House, the 26-story skyscraper now abuilding on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, which was to be a Canadian business and cultural center in New York? In their digging the M.P.s encountered a genuine shock, involving another logical Canada House tenant: the prestigious, 1,600-member Canadian Club of New York...
...adrift in New York while being divorced. Anne Bancroft is a warmhearted, racy-tongued, Bronx-to-Bohemia floater whom he meets at a party. All her life she has given too freely; he all his life has taken. Shuttling between their shabby little flats, they carry on a love affair in sickness and in health, in banter and in woe, bridging a cultural and temperamental divide better than they can blot out a memory of marriage...
Commenting on the riot, the President of the Daily Dartmouth said, "It was the feeling of the Council that Dartmouth students were not wholly responsible for the affair." The Band members, he said, were guilty by consent, since they entered the fracas with instruments they knew were delicate...