Word: profumo
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...still 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...
...Separation. As for the Profumo case, though an official inquiry into its security aspects is nearly complete, the government has given little assurance that it will lessen what the Economist recently called "the already cumbrous weight of suspicion that there is something nasty in the woodshed." Last week the Labor Party's "shadow" Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, called for a royal commission to investigate the roles played throughout by the government, judiciary and police...
...Lucky" Gordon, the Jamaican singer who was imprisoned on charges of beating Christine Keeler, and later mysteriously freed. Since there is no watertight separation of executive, judicial and legislative powers* in Britain's unwritten constitution, the disquieting implication to many Britons was that, in its embarrassment over the Profumo scandal, the government had exerted extraordinary pressure to put Ward behind bars. If such suspicions are unfair, there was little likelihood that they would ever be fully investigated, let alone refuted...
What with alarming figures from the National Opinion Poll and the confessions of Christine, top Tories were braced for bad news from last week's by-election to fill John Profumo's vacant seat at Stratford-upon-Avon, a true-blue Tory constituency. The news was bad all right, though hardly disastrous. Right-wing Conservative Angus Maude won with 15,846 votes, but the party's margin dropped from its 1959 peak of 14,129 to a mere...
...Revolution. Now even its impact on members of the Establishment seems minimal. The upright men among England's Top People live morally because a gentleman should do so, and not, so it seems, because the church tells them to. And among the passionate playboys of Mayfair-as the Profumo case suggests-a mention of the ethical teachings of the Church of England would seem an astonishing irrelevancy...