Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billie Sol Estes scandal just kept growing and growing-and every time an answer turned up, so did a few more questions. Last week the New York Herald Tribune (see THE PRESS) got its eager hands on a copy of the Agriculture Department's secret report on Billie Sol's cotton manipulations. Dated Oct. 27, 1961, the 140-page document clearly warned that Estes was a sleight-of-hand wheeler-dealer. Yet, three weeks after the report was submitted, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman confirmed Estes' appointment to the National Cotton Advisory Committee, and the Pecos Ponzi...
...appearing before a House subcommittee investigating the Estes case, Roland Ballou, an Agriculture Department official, was asked if he had ever met Estes. His answer: "I have not. Thank the Lord." Ballou's fervent reply was understandable, as the hearings turned up more strange twists in the serpentine scandal. Items...
Houphouet-Boigny stirred a scandal and risked his career by divorcing his wife and marrying Marie-Thérèse, who is 25 years younger. Today the Ivory Coast's First Lady is coifed by one of the most exclusive Parisian hair dressers (Carita), and dressed by Dior, whose salon is strategically located across the street from the Houphouet-Boignys' apartment. She prefers pastels and bright colors and, says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted...
...Administration, it would be kind of light reading around here." Well then, he was asked, why did Kennedy blow his top? "I think the culmination came," Salinger went on, "with the disclosure that the Herald Tribune completely ignored the stockpiling investigation." He was referring to a leftover Eisenhower Administration scandal, in which a copper company got a $6,000,000 windfall. Salinger was wrong, argued Trib Reporter David Wise. The Trib had indeed missed early editions with the story, but finally carried it-in the second section on page 32. Humphed Salinger: "If we're interested in history...
Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then...