Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program's biggest bad boy to date, but it became obvious that he has plenty of company. So far. the FBI has used 452 special agents from 46 cities in its Estes investigation, at a cost of $236,200; congressional investigations are expected to cost another halfmillion. But scandal was piling on scandal with such regularity that the price to the taxpayer of investigating them all might yet become a scandal of sorts itself...
...indictment against Estes, which raised the total number of his pending charges to 16 counts of mail fraud, twelve counts of illegally transporting securities in interstate commerce, and one count of conspiracy in faking the existence of scores of fictitious anhydrous ammonia tanks. Other developments in the Estes scandal...
...Visconti) probes the boredom and despair of the very rich. A handsome young Milanese count (Thomas Milian) has created a front-page scandal by associating with $1,000-a-night call girls. He fears that the father of his German-born wife Pupe (Romy Schneider) will cut him off without funds. As husband and wife debate their dilemma and their relationship, the camera feels its way like a sybarite over the textures of the setting and the people. The props are excruciatingly chic, ranging from Aubusson tapestries and Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes...
...vile, corrupt creature . . . this damnable skunk . . ." In these pungent terms, recalling a bygone style of political vituperation, Minnesota's Republican Representative H. Carl Andersen, last week on the House floor, attacked Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, who had written about Andersen's involvement in the Billie Sol Estes scandal (TIME cover, May 25). Andersen, senior Republican on the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, is so far the only Republican in Congress to be seriously tarnished by the Estes case: he took $4,000 from Estes for stock in a coal mine owned by the Andersen family, failed to give...
...settle a bit before jumping onto the Billie Sol Estes story, the Trib not only stirred dust but dished dirt. Eight days before the New York Times, for example, saw fit to move the developments in Pecos onto Page One, the Trib's frontpage headlines screamed: TEXAS SCANDAL REACHES...