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Married. Mandy Rice-Davies, 21, baby-faced second lead to Star Christine Keeler in Britain's 1963 Profumo scan dals; and Rafael Shaul, 26, an Israeli airline steward; in London...
Born. To Christine Keeler, 24, cash-and-carry-on playgirl in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and James Levermore, 24, a civil engineer: their first child, a son; in London...
...like Paddington and Netting Hill Gate. Next, boys and girls divided up into foppishly dressed Mods and leather-jacketed Rockers, took to Brighton and Margate on holiday weekends to have a bit of a rumble while their elders rocked with still greater shock over the seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes finally and irreparably cracked. The working-class man saw that the Tories were not necessarily better or even better-behaved than he just because they appeared to be so. One result was a razor-thin margin of victory for Harold...
Echoes of Profumo. Central figure of the case, Cardin told a press conference, was an "East German" blonde who had lived in Canada from 1955 to 1961, then returned to Germany, where she had died. He gave her name as Olga Munsinger and said she had been a spy before moving to Canada. There, he asserted, she had become involved with some of Diefenbaker's "Ministers-plural," and when Dief had found out about the affairs he had done nothing to stop them. "This is worse than Profumo," Cardin charged...
...Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...