Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily to the political and business success of Illinois' Charles Percy (TIME cover, Sept. 18). And in his bid to unseat Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, luck still rides with Chuck. Just a scant few weeks before the election, the Kerner Administration finds itself involved in a much headlined scandal...
Otto Kerner insists that he is "not associated with this in any way," that "a man is innocent until proven guilty" and that "I will stand by my friends." As for Chuck Percy, he just smiles, says not a word about the scandal. Why should he, with headlines about it every...
This conjured up shades of the hapless former Cabinet Minister, memories of that high-echelon prostitute, Christine Keeler, echoes of the whole scandal that had so sorely embarrassed the Tories a year ago. "Profumo!" Hogg replied angrily. "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the front bench of the Labor Party, you can talk about Profumo. If you can't tell me that, you had better keep your mouth shut...
...Since the Labor front bench is generally occupied by members of Labor's "shadow cabinet," all of them well known to each other, to their colleagues and the country, the statement was uncomfortably close to a specific accusation. Labor Chief Harold Wilson, who had ordered that the Profumo scandal not be raised by party leaders on the assumption that it might boomerang, gleefully picked up his cue and called on Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home to repudiate Hogg. Next day Hogg made a partial and grudging retraction. But he thought it was all most unfair, since "Mr. Profumo...
...Republican representation in Congress would be smaller, but it would also tend more to homogeneous Goldwater Republicanism. The obliteration of many Congressional moderates in the party would also leave Goldwater forces as the only visible leadership alternative, should a catastrophe or scandal that decisively discredited the Democrats occur...