Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care for themselves and get no follow-up treatment. Certain areas have become saturated with these patients, who are often resented and feared by their neighbors. After releasing the results of a House committee survey on the subject last month, Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper commented: "We have a major scandal on our hands...
...Deals like this one give plea bargaining a bad name," fumed the morning Sun, which originally broke the scandal. Much of the public seemed to agree. The kid-gloves treatment of Carcich may hurt Burch, who is running for Governor in the Sept. 12 primary. The longer range impact will come in Washington. The Pallottines were not the only agency that used 80% or more of their gifts to cover the exorbitant costs of direct mail. Congress is now considering a new law to force charities to disclose such unhappy facts to potential contributors...
...Wayne L.," as they call former Representative Wayne Hays in Ohio, just won't stay down on his farm. Having resigned from Congress in 1976 because of a scandal over his secretary, Elizabeth Ray, Hays is now running for the Ohio house of representatives. Is it a comedown to be aiming for Columbus instead of Washington? Not at all, says Hays, drawing a grand historical analogy: "Look at John Quincy Adams-he was defeated for his second term as President and then proceeded to serve in the House of Representatives until the day he died...
Then he got embroiled in a scandal involving the county's 850 special deputies-mostly retired policemen, private security guards and cronies of local politicians. Special deputies can carry guns and make arrests and usually work as guards in schools and businesses or as police auxiliaries in the suburbs. In March, after a drunken special deputy was killed in a shootout with state police, reporters for the Indianapolis Star started investigating. When Gilman refused to tell them his special deputies' names, the Star began referring to them as his "secret police." In response, Gilman revoked all the special...
...jury choices in journalism were overturned by the more powerful Advisory Board. So five contestants whom juries sought to honor lost out, and five who got the final awards must live with the knowledge that they were not the jury's first choice. This may not be a scandal, but it's mighty confusing. Can't they get their heads together up at Columbia...