Word: profumo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albion's reprobation. Three of them were busted, haled into court and subjected to a campaign of vilification from the English right-wing press. The Stones became the scapegoats of England's drug problem, and their legal vicissitudes provided London with the juiciest gossip since the Profumo scandal...
...wages of sin have been marked PAID for John Profumo. The British War Minister, who was forced to resign in disgrace from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet in 1963 for having lied to Parliament about his affair with Party Girl Christine Keeler, was greeted warmly by Queen Elizabeth II. The occasion: the opening of Attlee House, an extension of London's famed Toynbee Hall, a rehabilitation center in the East End where Profumo has been working full time helping alcoholics, drug addicts, parolees and ex-convicts. Said Social Worker Profumo afterward: "It has been a wonderful...
...that elected officials can get away with a good deal of wrongdoing, as long as they honestly own up to their sins when they are caught. Let a politician be trapped in a bold-faced lie, however, and he may well be finished. Britain's War Minister John Profumo learned that lesson eight years ago when he falsely assured Parliament that he had never consorted with a tart named Christine Keeler...
Married. Christine Keeler, 28, party girl who rose to notoriety in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and Anthony Platt, 31, a metal manufacturing company director; she for the second time; in London...
...kind of invective. Britain's suicide rate soared. So did crime. From 1956 to 1965, illegitimate births doubled. The money spent on gambling increased fourfold. Hard-drug usage-heroin, cocaine-multiplied ten times over. Gradually the plot of history and the quirks of society grew nastier-Suez, Profumo, the 1966 Moors murder trial. Today, Booker judges, the Great Freak-Out is over. Reality has caught up with fantasy, and the spirit of collective hangover lies upon the land...