Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAMES T. LYNN, 45, who replaces George Romney at Housing and Urban Development, has no experience in housing, but he may not need any. The scandal-ridden department faces severe budget cuts. As a White House staffer sardonically remarked: "We could rent out offices in the HUD building. Nothing is going to be going on there anyway." Lynn speaks of moving toward the goal of decent housing for every American family, but he is not likely to be allowed to go far in that direction. A Cleveland lawyer with big corporate clients, he asked for a job in the Nixon...
Only Black. Despite the fact that he was confirmed as Attorney General only after a bitter fight over his role in the ITT scandal, Richard Kleindienst will stay on the job. A tough law-and-order man who has Barry Goldwater's backing, Kleindienst has not been in the post long enough to be rated accurately. Five key posts under him will be swept clean as part of the Nixon effort to have a forward-looking second term. Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, a critic of the Warren Court and a key man in developing Nixon's busing...
...column appeared in 1,200 newspapers worldwide. A celebrated feuder, most notably with Orson Welles over his film Citizen Kane, which she said ridiculed William Randolph Hearst, she was also a tireless reporter with sharp instincts for a story and an early-warning radar for scandal. Two of her biggest exposés were the Douglas Fairbanks-Mary Pickford divorce and Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini...
...When it raps a paper, that publication-and all others-generally print the decision. One of the council's most publicized condemnations led the News of the World to tone down a series of after-the-fact confessions by Christine Keeler, the feminine lead in the 1963 Profumo scandal. Last September the council chided London's Daily Mirror for being "too definitive" in blaming a crew member for a plane crash while an investigation was just beginning. The Mirror apologized in print. When the council argued last January against further legal restrictions on news reporting, the government committee...
AFTER Founder Bernard Cornfeld finished manipulating and misusing the Geneva-based IOS mutual fund complex in 1970, it was a wonder that there were any assets left to drain off. In fact, enough cash and American stocks remained in IOS-managed funds to provide the makings of an international scandal juicier than any that Cornfeld produced. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Cornfeld's successor, Robert L. Vesco, and a group of Vesco's associates of "looting" no less than $224 million from four IOS funds so far this year. The SEC brought a civil action...