Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest theater of operations for land-grabbing hucksters is Arizona, where some 630 so-called subdivisions have sprung up during the past 18 months and 60,000 lots have been sold, mostly sight unseen. Determined to get federal intervention to stop what may blow up into a national scandal, Arizona's Real Estate Commissioner J. Fred Talley recently testified before a U.S. Senate special committee, and concentrated his fire on an Arizona desert development called Lake Mead Rancheros...
...Sleep Well. Japan's Akira Kurosawa, probing relentlessly into a big corporate scandal, accomplishes a grisly biopsy of a cancer on the Japanese social body: bribery...
...move to a new location without permission from the authority. Booze is big business in New York: a Manhattan package store can easily gross $1,000,000 a year. With that kind of money at stake, the Liquor Authority, with its 358 lowly employees, is a likely school for scandal. And as of last week, scandal was busting out all over...
...able to budge General de Gaulle, but Britons are having no trouble bowling over Broadway. In a distressingly dreary season, one of the few dramas of distinction is the British holdover A Man for All Seasons. Nothing on the boards is as stylish as The School for Scandal, or saucier than Beyond the Fringe and its off-Broadway sibling. The Establishment. Non-British plays like Tchin-Tchin and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore are visibly sparked by the highvoltage acting of England's Margaret Leighton and Hermione Baddeley. Even cornball tastes are catered to satisfactorily...
Book fairs, reported sensations, scandal stories...