Word: imbroglio
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...social profile as most of his Administration colleagues. He putters about his townhouse installing kitchen shelves and light fixtures. He and his second wife, Maureen, play tennis, sail and recently took a Berlitz course in French together. But his anonymity has been badly bumped by the imbroglio over Watergate. "The current happenings around the White House have driven him almost to the point of exhaustion," says a friend. As Dean well knows, the waves from Watergate contributed to washing out another close Nixon aide, Dwight Chapin. They threaten to finish off L. Patrick Gray III, and they could even inundate...
...imbroglio began with Kissinger's journey to Saigon. He managed to obtain Thieu's reluctant agreement to a cease-fire after four days of "heated" talks. But the tough-minded South Vietnamese President dug in against the proposal for a three-part council composed of Communists, Thieu loyalists and "neutrals." It would arrange elections, which Thieu fears would lead to a gradual Communist takeover or at least a new constitution that would effectively drum his narrowly based regime out of power. Fighting back in a two-hour TV address last week, Thieu denounced the plan as "a cunning scheme...
...early prominence came from Spivak's uncanny knack for snaring newsmakers while they were hot, and from the tough questions he threw at them once they were on the air. An incident this summer suggests that Spivak has not lost his scheduling touch. During the Thomas Eagleton imbroglio, CBS's Face the Nation seemed to have scored a clear scoop by presenting the beleaguered vice-presidential candidate and Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that...
...Cronkite imbroglio had scarcely subsided when the gaffe and goof baton went to John Chancellor. Observing the Youth for Nixon claque, he commented sourly, "At Democratic Conventions we've seen Mayor Daley of Chicago pack the halls with members of the Sixth Ward sewer workers. What we've seen tonight seems to be the Republican equivalent." The G.O.P. delegates did not fancy themselves as stand-ins for Art Carney, and NBC's switchboard was flooded with complaints. Chancellor later harrumphed an apology, and the next day a huge poster was displayed on the floor: ENTHUSIASTIC SEWER WORKERS...
Three events were mainly responsible for this shaking one of them the war was well trod territory, while the others--an imbroglio over investment in Portuguese Africa and a controversy over a cut in pay to teaching fellows--were fresh ground. On top of these, a host of other issues embroiled those on the campus who were specifically concerned with them and sometimes those who couldn't really care less but had nothing better to do with their time...