Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Counsellor Robert Finch, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, HUD Secretary George Romney, White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Chief John Volpe. Ostentatiously absent from the round of meetings was White House Aide Dwight Chapin, who had been compromised by being tied into the Watergate scandal. "Chapin has got to go," declared a White House adviser. U.S. Treasurer Romana Banuelos would seem to be a likely target for dismissal, too, since her family-owned California food-processing firm was recently found guilty of unfair labor practices. Yet other factors may keep her in her present post...
...best-dressed flic in France," as his colleagues called him, Tonnot made no secret of his own close connections with the underworld. His mistress ran a dubious nightclub, and Tonnot allowed no interference from fellow cops on his beat. Last week Tonnot himself was under arrest in a widening scandal that has so far brought convictions for four madams, five pimps and six bordello operators-three of them Lyon cops...
Tonnot's arrest added new headlines to a case that had already titillated France and embarrassed President Georges Pompidou's Gaullist party. Prostitution is not illegal per se in France, but pimping and bordellos are. Moreover, the taint of scandal had spread from the flic-operators to party members in Lyon. One Gaullist deputy, Edouard Charret, was implicated when a local newspaper printed a picture of him attending the wedding of close friends. The groom, it turned out, was one of the city's better-known pimps and the groom's mother was a notable madam...
Still, the breakup "was a terrible nightmare," admits Liv. "It was so public. I felt everybody was looking at me. I don't know where you can hide your sorrows any more." Scandal magazines and newspapers hounded her, and reporters and photographers followed her every movement. One day, to get away from them, friends took her out the back door of a Copenhagen hotel, leaving her for a minute in an alley while they fetched a cab. "I was standing there in the garbage," she remembers, "and I felt it was really symbolic. Something died in me. I resolved...
...come, Lady Randolph, we live in modern times, Surely the word syphilis need hold no terrors for us." Lord Randolph's death, his wife's love affairs and her lack of interest in her son until he started to become famous are reduced to the level of Screen Magazine scandal-mongering...