Word: profumo
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...Ward case go beyond such specific matters as the function of the judiciary. The wide-ranging inquiry being conducted by Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls,* keeps feeding new rumors into the stream of London gossip, including the suspicion that two more Cabinet members besides War Minister Jack Profumo were involved in the case or its fringes. Says Denning: "It is impossible to draw a hard and fast line between crime...
...Guardian splenetically accused fellow journalists of being little better than prostitutes and purveyors of pornography (though in fact, it carried more words on the case than the tabloid Daily Mirror). But for all its excesses, it was the press that was largely responsible for bringing the Profumo affair to light. And it was the normally pro-government London Times which insisted from the first that the case posed a moral issue...
Goats & Monkeys. Harold Macmillan, for one, has not forgiven Haley for what he considered a stab in the back from within the Establishment. "The Profumo case," said Macmillan fatuously last week, "revealed the very high standard we try to maintain in British public life," because otherwise the affair would not have "caused so great a shock." The judge in the Ward case himself echoed the widespread view that Ward was an exception, and that "the even tenor of the British family goes on quietly." And the Bishop of Exeter maintained that the "Profumo scandal does not prove that the private...
Tarts' Target. Stephen Ward, a suave, composed witness in his own defense, said he was only "trying to help" by introducing the girls to middle-aged friends. In fact, though he himself had been the first to inform government and opposition leaders that Profumo had lied in denying his relationship with Christine, Ward said on the stand that he had only "a shrewd idea" that they were actually sleeping together, and was horrified when he learned that cash had changed hands. Ward said he even doubted that Christine had slept with Soviet Naval Attache Evgeny Ivanov. "Like...
Like the overturning of a deeply embedded rock, the Profumo scandal caused a frantic scurrying of a great many odd human insects. One of the crawliest figures to emerge was that of Peter Rachman, who may, or may not, be dead. Last week press and Parliament were abuzz with his sordid story...