Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...
...this month all the world knows about this sultry young woman. Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England. CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance. Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale come true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenburg...
...candid. Candor won out, with a rebuke to her questioners and the press that was all the more effective for not being heated: "I don't think one could have a good government in which everyone agreed with everybody about everything ... the problem occurs when disagreements about policy leak into the press as disagreements among people... we have a kind of movie-magazine approach to the discussion of policy differences." She seemed to be saying that the press, in its superficial way, was missing the real story: policy differences between her and Haig are real and deep. "Furthermore...
...Howard Hunt, 63, White House leak-plugging plumber who helped plan burglary and bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate complex. Pleaded guilty. Served 33 months in prison. Released in February 1977. Has cleared his debts (including $387,000 in legal fees), partly by writing novels. Of 56 books he has written, his autobiography, Undercover, "did the least well," he says. Hunt's first wife died in 1972 plane crash. He has remarried. Last year he won $650,000 libel suit against right-wing Liberty Lobby, which had falsely linked him to John Kennedy's assassination...
...more publicized leak of exam questions took place in January 1973, although it was not the result of a lapse in printing office security. In a little-advertised Adams House review session for his course in post World War 11 novels. English Professor Robert Kiely discussed the specific format of his exam and revealed two questions Kiely--then associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education--maintained that the information would not have given a significant advantage to students who had not done the course work and would have made no difference to students who had. But two students...