Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly touted Hamlet in Hamburg, and former Queen Soraya, 31, who adorned his opening night and who reportedly takes tips from Max about her new movie career. What's cosmically significant about that? Nothing, says Max. So why don't those lens-happy "reporters of the international scandal press" leave him alone? Soliloquizing in the West German daily Die Welt, onetime Journalist Schell added: "They squat like monkeys in trees, they hang like grape clusters from airliner stairways. Pitiless as wasps, they live off the blood of prominent personalities. In the private sphere, permission of the person photographed...
...TEACH THAT "SPIRITUAL UNITY" IS ENOUGH. "Let people think that the essential unity of the church is quite unimpaired by denominational distinctions, disputes over sacraments and ministry, doctrine, liturgy, polity, or race. All talk about the sin and scandal of division can thus be discredited...
...lily patch and call it The Tabernacle, and slowly evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead. Hymns and the promulgation of rules and cruel punishments comprise its simple liturgy. The fact is-not that facts, as such, mean much to them-that mother was a local scandal as a woman of loose morals (which is partly why the adults accepted the kids' story that mother was "sick") and no two of the children had the same father. "Dad" is a racecourse spiv named Charlie Hook who has given them nothing but his name. When he tells...
Unusual Happenings. Alas, poor Sig! One day in 1956, with no advance warning, the British fired him. Not without cause. Sig's saga finally came to light last week in a remarkably bland report by the judicial tribunal that has spent three months investigating the latest British spy scandal: the strange case of William John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk who had been assigned to the Moscow embassy for two years, and had been spying for the Russians for seven. Vas-sall's superiors, and all but one of the officers who picked him out of 40 applicants...
...football's tycoons have a good thing going, and the slightest scent of scandal makes them shudder-all the way to the bank. Last week they got a bad case of the tremblies. Those stories about players betting on pro games turned out to be true. As sports scandals go, this one was strictly bush league. But it was enough to make National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle reach for his cat-o'-nine-tails...