Word: lambton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Longford, a sturdy Roman Catholic peer and tireless moralizer whose antismut campaigns have earned him the nickname "Lord Porn." She is an avid collector-of white dresses (she has 100), and of personages literary, theatrical and political. Her companions have included Author Norman Mailer, Actor Robert Stephens and Lord Lambton, the Tory M.P. who quit Parliament last year after being photographed in bed with a call girl...
...ministers of the Conservative government-Earl Jellicoe, Tory Leader in the House of Lords, and Lord Lambton, parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense for the Royal Air Force-resigned after it was disclosed that they had been patronizing London call girls. In the report of his investigation of this matter, Lord Diplock very carefully weighed each minister's indiscretion on different-oddly different -scales. Jellicoe, it was pointed out, used only "escort agencies" advertised in the London papers, dealt with the girls under an assumed name and never "spoke to them of anything remotely related to his work...
...Film. As for Lord Lambton, that was a more serious case. According to Diplock, Lambton indiscreetly and unwisely paid for his whoring with checks signed in his own name and went openly to a prostitute's apartment, where he was filmed "naked on a bed with Norma Levy and another girl, both also naked." Worse yet, Lambton combined pot with his popsies. Marijuana or cannabis-for those readers of the report who might never have heard of it-was described as "a soft drug which produces changes in mood and perception and gives a feeling of irresponsibility." Diplock added...
...this is no crim inal offense." The security risk seemed relatively minor. Declared Diplock: "Such indiscretions are more likely to occur in the kind of conversation that takes place at cocktail parties or around a dinner table than in what might be said to a prostitute in bed." In Lambton's case, whatever security risk there was existed not so much in bed but behind the walls, where cameras and tape machines were recording instant history. Here was the danger that blackmail material might find its way into the hands of foreign intelligence agents...
...predictable reaction of many will be to declare that the press is not to be trusted with the freedom it already enjoys." The Press Council, meanwhile, began an investigation, and Lord Lambton has been to see his solicitor...