Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer saved his regime from collapse over the Der Spiegel "treason" scandal last week. But nothing der Alte did or said could muffle the growing noise surrounding his government's role in the affair...
...leaders voted, 127 to 87, to modify such monstrosities as the pig killing. But they left the system generally intact, which delighted many an old Dutch college grad. In the good old days, recalled Justice Minister Albert Beerman, a Leiden man, some students there were involved in a hazing scandal. "But finally," said he, "they all came to high and respectable posts in Dutch society...
...capturing 20th Century-Fox from the cold grip of Wall Street last summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with the excellent argument that any unfinished movie that has cost its studio $35 million must be a scandal, Zanuck moved into Paris for close combat with Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Last week the generalissimo took careful aim, picked Mankiewicz off, and flew home with Cleopatra under his arm. Having made a career of making others dance to his martial music, he was scarcely prepared for the rebellion that...
...York's outgoing (and scandal-tainted) School Superintendent John J. Theobald leaves a witches' brew-860 schools starved for money and choked in red tape, 40,000 teachers newly unionized and still restless after a recent strike, 1,023,875 pupils, of whom one-third come from "culturally deprived homes." This plight moved New York to look beyond the Hudson and its own inbred school administration for the best qualified superintendent in the U.S. After scouring 56 major cities for four months, the searchers, led by Dean Francis Keppel of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, solidly...
...Minor Scandal. By the time the youngsters get to high school, they are fully indoctrinated. There are only 40 boys in school-and all but nine suit up for the team. Seven do not play because they are ineligible, one because he is team manager, and one because his parents won't let him. In football-fanatic Pflugerville, this is a scandal. "We think it's terrible," says Coach Charles Kuempel, 30. ''While the other boys are playing football, he's in the study hall-with girls...