Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire des généraux. Then the scandal burst into open flame, and Premier Georges Bidault hastily summoned Defense Minister Rene Pleven back from London to attend a special night cabinet session on the matter...
...Panair executives, who had built up perhaps the finest operational record of any South American airline, the scandal was tough luck. Last week, Pan American, which owns 48% of Panair's stock, rushed a task force of two vice presidents and two controllers from the U.S. to go over the books behind locked doors. As reports spread that the shortage was much greater than first announced, Panair Manager Frank Sampaio abruptly resigned, without explanation...
...scandal's political effects might also be damaging to Panair. As Brazil's major international airline (it operates four Constellation flights a week to Europe and back), Panair was leading a campaign in Congress for government subsidy of Brazil's overseas air services. With rugged competition from seven subsidized European lines, Panair was losing money on the South Atlantic route and sorely needed government help. After finding out how sadly Panair had been hoodwinked in its account-keeping, Congressmen might possibly bridle at voting the airline $1,000,000 a year in cash subsidies...
Where the Riviera is loud and brash, its less renowned rival Biarritz is reserved and circumspect. Drowsing in the winter sun, discreet Biarritz has its full share of ménages à trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...
...famed as the "newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write...