Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innovation is a comprehensive new math curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade that is being taught this fall to 5,000,000 students in 50 states. Its newest change is perhaps its most crucial: transforming social studies from a dull memorization of unrelated facts, which has long been the scandal of grade-school education, to a lively, integrated understanding of the economic, political and historical crosscurrents that comprise U.S. democracy...
...brash young Chicago Daily News correspondent named John Gunther, Vienna in the early '30s was about the most exciting assignment on earth. The city was charmed and doomed, as elegant, perverse and scandal loving as an aging archduchess. Though tiny post-Versailles Austria (pop. 6,760,000) teetered perennially on the edge of bankruptcy, the ancient Hapsburg capital was still the political and financial nerve center of the Balkans. As Europe slid into the chaos of depression and approaching war, the Viennese reveled in the musicmaking of Richard Strauss, Lotte Lehman and Bruno Walter; they entrusted their psyches...
Last week, Bennett, who may be the best penologist in U.S. history, retired from a career that he began in 1927 as an obscure Government efficiency expert investigating federal prisons. What he found was 19 scandal-tainted Siberias jammed with idle, desperate cons and untrained, underpaid guards. Bennett's reports led in 1930 to creation of the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons, which he took over in 1937. A measure of his devotion is eight pioneering federal penal laws with which he has been associated, including the 1964 Criminal Justice Act financing legal aid for federal defendants...
...concealed information about the harmful side effects of MER/29, an anticholesterol drug; it thereupon was hit with an $80,000 fine and a rash of suits by users of the drug. The three-year congressional investigation of the industry by the late Senator Estes Kefauver and the scandal of thalidomide caused birth defects have led Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration broader powers to police the research, manufacture and testing of drugs. Previously, drug companies were not required to consult the FDA on a new drug until they were ready for final market clearance. Now the FDA supervises...
Died. Oscar ("Happy") Felsch, 73, key figure in the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" baseball scandal, the team's shagging center fielder who unwittingly broke open the mess, admitted helping throw the World Series to Cincinnati when he fell for a reporter's "all-the-others-have-confessed" ruse and angrily blurted: "Why those wise guys! At least I already have my $5,000"; of a liver ailment; in Milwaukee...