Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years had unobtrusively buried himself in the British Secret Service. Haydon was manifestly based on Kim Philby, a principal strategist of British intelligence who defected to Russia in 1963 after two decades of spying for the Soviets. Britain's real Secret Service had to be rebuilt after the Philby scandal; the fictional one is equally shattered and in need of repair in the post-Haydon...
...from 1963 to 1974. Lance went too far, mawkishly equating his plight with that of victims of governmental oppression abroad, the human rights martyrs. No one, after all, has an inalienable right to a high Government job. But he struck chords designed to set off sympathetic vibrations across a scandal-weary nation...
...Kenneth Curley saw his re-entry as both a new beginning and an end to humiliation. Curley, 22, was ranked seventh in leadership in his old class. He observes sardonically that he "would have been a real big shot" at the academy had he not become involved in the scandal. During his year in purgatory, spent back home in West Islip, N.Y., working as a kitchen helper and steeplejack, his parents got calls from anonymous taunters who would jeer, "I hear your son's a cheat." After all that, the Point seems like paradise. "I requested...
...After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging him to go back. "I knew I wouldn't be at peace with myself until I finished," says Ringgold...
...academy has changed since the scandal. That summer, it enrolled its first women plebes-and now has 177 female cadets. The academy has done away with the system by which cadets rate each other on leadership. It has also abandoned the general order of merit, which prescribed the ranking of each cadet by academic grades as well. Thus the class of '78 will be the first to have no "goat"-the cadet who got his diploma last because he had the lowest overall standing...