Word: profumo
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...present, her father-in-law-Nancy called him "Old Moneybags"-presented the couple with several million pounds and Cliveden, a 300-year-old Thames-side estate. Now the home of her eldest son, William, Cliveden hit the headlines in 1963 as the place where Christine Keeler disported with Jack Profumo...
Last job held: M.P. and War Minister. Reason for leaving: caught out in lie which opened question to whole moral character. With a resume like that a man might as well forget it, but John Profumo, 49, last week started in as a nonsalaried assistant to the warden of Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house. Explained the newborn social worker: "Believe me, this is no stunt. I want to forget the past...
...think that the person who changed the world most was Christine Keeler. She is my nomination for the worst Woman of the Year. She brought the eyes of the world upon England in the famous Profumo scandal. This has given the world an impression about Great Britain-and this impression is not the best...
Macmillan's mission in town, only two months after his resignation as Britain's Prime Minister, was to attend the House of Commons post-mortem debate on the Profumo-Keeler scandal...
...Ward is dead," pleaded Barrister Jeremy Hutchinson last week. "Profumo is disgraced. And now I know your lordship will resist the temptation to take what I might call society's pound of flesh." It was no Antonio in the prisoner's dock at the Old Bailey, but cool, green-suited Christine Keeler (130 Ibs.), and the quality of mercy was not strained. Noting that she had been "under pressure, under fear and under domination," Judge Sir Anthony Hawke sentenced Christine to nine months in jail for perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice (maximum possible sentence for perjury alone...