Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, it looked as if Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's political foes might at last have the pleasure of seeing the Old Man forced out of office. The scandal over the arrest and jailing of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9) had blown up into a national tempest, rocking the Cabinet itself. But in his half-century of political maneuvering, der Alte has learned what it takes to survive. Last week he squeaked through again-with a plan that probably will sacrifice his brawny, brawling Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss...
...forced resignation might well be the end of a political career that once seemed headed for the chancellorship itself. Although he is bright and talented, Strauss's muscular methods have led him into many political blunders. Once, after he deliberately jumped a red light, Strauss caused a national scandal by trying to fire the traffic cop who sent him a summons. More recently, he was involved in an unsavory case of favoritism in contract awards for military housing. He has since been exonerated. If he is to retrieve his reputation and once again climb back up to influence...
Since a homosexual Admiralty clerk named John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years in prison last month for selling secrets to the Russians, the House of Commons has buzzed with rumors that the case might involve the government in the biggest scandal since Burgess and MacLean eloped to Russia in 1951. Last week the most sensational version of the Vassall saga to date was unfolded in the House of Commons by the very man whom the Opposition had accused of trying to whitewash the whole affair: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...Jackpot, Scandal. Vanity overcoming discretion, Sherman phoned the Newark Evening News to boast of his own treasure trove, and the story of his bonanza burst into headlines across the country. In Washington, Postmaster General J. Edward Day reacted hastily. He directed the printing of 400,000 more Hammarskjolds with the identical imperfect backgrounds -thus knocking down the worth of the originals to little more than the 4? they had cost at the post office. Moaned Sherman's wife: "Isn't that lousy...
Sensational as it was, the Kim-Choi scandal had to share the headlines with another story. After his swift coup in May 1961, General Park Chung Hee pledged that his 32-man junta would go back to the barracks "when all revolutionary tasks have been accomplished." The strongman, who so far has done an impressive job of ridding South Korea of corruption and creating a measure of economic stability, last week published a draft constitution that will restore civilian rule by next summer. But when Park goes back to the barracks, it will be merely to change into civvies...