Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan, the authorities may have been overestimating the F.T.A.'s appeal. In Iwakuni, one-third of the G.l.s in a large gymnasium walked out before the show was over, apparently bored. The Japanese seemed somewhat disenchanted by Jane's transformation, as one weekly put it, "from a scandal actress to a pacifist." One fan who had expected to see Barbarella onstage lamented: "She looks too undistinguished and sounds too shrill...
Political scandal is not new to Illinois,nor is it the exclusive property of one political party. In 1956 a top Republican official, Orville Hodge, was convicted of looting the statetreasury of $1,450,000; last year it was discovered that the late secretary of state, Paul Powell, a Democrat, had stashed away $800,000 in shoeboxes. Less than a year before the 1972 election, another scandal has surfaced that could severely damage the Democratic machine of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley...
...problem, Lucia hatches a sort of Raffles-in-hair-ribbons plot to rob a jewelry store, fence the proceeds through her favorite newsboy, reunite her parents in New York and live with them ever after. The plot is a hilarious failure, but the robbery makes such a scandal that Grandma sends Lucia back to her mother. Lucia arrives in a glow, triumphant. "Mother, I love you. I'm home." Mother, just out of a mental hospital, begins to laugh hysterically...
...mysterious that few knew his real name. The case was clearly reminiscent of the current film hit, The French Connection. But the federal indictments handed down last week in Newark concerned an affair as real as the one that inspired the film. It was an international smuggling scandal that, U.S. authorities allege, reaches into the staff of the French consulate in New York and to a high official of the SDECE (Service de Documentation et de Contre-Espionnage), the French equivalent...
...scandal began in April when Lynn Pelletier, a U.S. Customs official acting on a hunch, searched a Volkswagen camper-bus shipped to Port Elizabeth, N.J., from Le Havre. She found 96 pounds of pure heroin secreted behind the fire wall of the bus. The bus's owner, Roger de Louette, had acted slightly nervous when filling out customs forms; he was arrested as he waited on the pier. De Louette claimed that he had been a spy with the SDECE. After being fired, he needed money badly, and accepted an offer to earn $60,000 for shipping the heroin...