Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polite cadets are," said Tompkins, an Army staff sergeant in the South Pacific in W.W. II. Concluded Flamini: "Some may find it hard to accept West Point's honor code as anything more than elitist mumbo jumbo -but there is something to the place." That "something" and the scandal's scope are the story: edited by Ronald Kriss, an ex-Army specialist third class; written by James Atwater, ex-Korean War lieutenant; and researched by Anne Hopkins, granddaughter of Admiral William S. Sims (Annapolis '80), and Eileen Chiu, daughter of an Air Force colonel...
...scandal may well spread and engulf others. Liz is not alone in turning talkative. Federal investigators are expected to explore reports that she and other women working on jobs over which Hays held power took part in "orgies" at a hideaway in the Capitol-assigned to Speaker Carl Albert and known as "the Board of Education" -and in suburban apartments. Various Congressmen, staff members and Capitol Hill police reportedly attended...
There were ironies aplenty in the scandal. In 1967, Hays had led an investigation of Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who was charged, among other things, with taking women companions along on official junkets. Powell, perhaps more on target than he realized, replied that he had just been doing what white Congressmen often did but was being hounded because he was black...
...marred by doubts, confusion, bitterness and fear. Dozens of the marching cadets may be dismissed from the United States Military Academy within weeks. There is talk that scores, even hundreds of others may be in deep trouble before the current investigations have run their course. The most serious cheating scandal in its history is shaking West Point-a furor that has set cadet against cadet and threatens the basic nature of the institution itself...
This farcical circle of palace revolts is interrupted by the reverberations of a European cataclysm: The Great War. While a massacre by the Head of State provokes brief, tongue-clucking scandal in the French press, the tales of Hun atrocities shock Latin Americans who believed, above all, in the civilization of Europe. And the ideology that fills the moral vacuum left by the collapse of the old cultural value is Marxism...