Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question-and-answer press conference started off as a typical, meet-the-new-man affair. How was the Corps these days? "In the highest state of readiness in my time," Greene answered. Would he follow Dave Shoup's policies? Yes, by insisting that every man be "a marine 24 hours a day." How did he regard the swagger stick, which Shoup disliked? "It is still optional but not very popular." Then someone inquired how Greene planned to use modern technology in running the Corps...
...bound volume entitled Lord Denning's Report (price: $1.05) had sold nearly 100,000 copies in 24 hours, an alltime record for an official document. Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition had somewhat less reason to rejoice. The report, based on a three-month investigation of the Profumo affair by Britain's second-ranking judge, dismissed most major charges and every squalid rumor of government culpability in the case. In 60,000 lucid words, Denning rejected persistent reports that other Tory ministers had been involved in bizarre sexual exploits, left no grounds for belief that John Pro-fumo...
Provider of Popsies. Britain's serious press was more critical of the Prime Minister. The Tory Daily Telegraph headlined its Page One account of the report: PREMIER "FAILED" IN PROFUMO AFFAIR. The Times demanded to know why Macmillan had not himself questioned Profumo or checked into other evidence in the case, pointing out that the "Prime Minister selects his ministerial colleagues; responsibility for their fitness for office is his, and serious imputations on their character must concern him personally...
...report notes that the Security Service did not even know of Chris tine's affair with Profumo until 18 months later. Then, when it was finally discovered, the anonymous head of Britain's security decided "it was not within the proper scope of the Security Service to inquire into these matters," since "it was not a case of a security risk but of moral misbehavior by a Minister...
...fall version of any rugby team is a rather sparse affair. Football drains off many of its heavier and talented players leaving inexperienced and decidedly less meaty men to fill their places...