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...believe in pounding a beat. Its streets and parks after dark are among the world's safest; and while an English householder is away on vacation, likely as not the bobbies will keep an eye on his front door. But in recent years, and particularly since the Profumo-Keeler-Ward scandals, Britons have come to suspect that their police are not only markedly less proficient at keeping the Queen's Peace than of old, but may also have become less scrupulous in upholding the traditionally high standards of British justice...
...sighs the father, "his story beat me by two weeks." They were competitors again more recently on stories about the new Pope. But usually father concerns himself more, in his London TIME job, with Harold Macmillan, Geneva conferences, Tory and Labor politics, and the higher significance of Christine Keeler...
...really been like. A top London crime reporter, who knew him long before the case broke, summed it up. He said Ward had corrupted the innocent, worsened the already bad, toyed with people's lives for the fun of it, dallied with whores so grubby that even Christine Keeler "could not bear to look at them." To many he was "a central figure of evil." Ward, added the Guardian, was not a victim of hypocrisy, but a "victim of his own impulses, which led him into many squalid crimes, not all of them mentioned in the official charge sheet...
...press continued to play both crime and sin for all they were worth, and it was easy to blame it for exaggerating, if not creating the scandal by buying up "confessions" right and left at fabulous prices. The People, which had lost Christine Keeler's story in the bidding with its rival, News of the World, last week attacked Christine under the banner SHAMELESS SLUT...
Indeed, says Stratford Herald Editor Harry Pigott-Smith, the voters had long known that Profumo was "a naughty boy," and would gladly have kept the ex-War Minister as their M.P. if only he had not lied about his affair with Christine Keeler to the House of Commons. Stratford's most serious criticism of the government was that it had launched an irritating political diversion in the Shakespeare industry's peak season. On the other hand, most voters were probably too busy changing dollars and Deutsche marks to change parties...