Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Sleep Well. The bribe is a dominant fact of business life in Japan, and the fiscal scandal is a frequent feature of the public prints. To this situation Akira Kurosawa, a superb director with a burning concern for social problems (Ikirn), addresses himself in this angry, ironic, sometimes unfair but always violently exciting study of corruption in high places. His story is circumstantial, but his theme is universal: turn the rascals out! A scandal breaks. The subsidiaries of a construction trust are accused of rigging bids on government contracts. Secret kickbacks are suspected; elected officials may be involved. The press...
...recalls the advent of Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel at the sight of their new guardians sneaking a morning drink. In political terms, the resulting uproar often has an hysterical ring. Recently, during the scandal over Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9), Group 47 issued a statement declaring that "the stealing of military secrets is a patriotic duty...
After a conflict-of-interest scandal involving William C. Newberg, Colbert's personal choice to run Chrysler's day-today operations, there was an outburst of stockholder suits and public recriminations. Chrysler Director George Love, 62, the big, amiable chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co., stepped in to fill the leadership breach. With the support of a committee of outside directors, he ousted Colbert. But the task of finding a new president and operating boss for Chrysler proved difficult. Unable to persuade anyone outside the company to risk the job, the directors in July 1961 turned to Administrative Vice...
...math and Paul Dietzel. For five years Lombardi ran the cadets' fast-striking offense-and by West Point standards, most of them were lean years. Army's great All-Americas, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, graduated in 1947, and 37 players were expelled when a cribbing scandal rocked the campus in 1951. "We had very few talented football players." recalls Blaik. "We had to dig into our B squad to field a team, and our job was to teach what we had the best we could. Lombardi was a driver. Not all the boys liked...