Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANGELES. Theater Group. At U.C.L.A.'s Schoenberg Hall: The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, through Aug. 28; The Flies, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sept. 6-Oct. 9. Association of Producing Artists. At the Huntington Hartford Theater: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, starring Helen Hayes and Melvyn Douglas, Aug. 8-13; George Kaufman and Moss Hart's You Can't Take It With You, Aug. 15-20; Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are If You Think You Are, Aug. 22-27. At the Greek Theater: an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy...
When the Sherman Adams scandal broke, Mollenhoff adopted the relatively simple strategy of bracing Mrs. Adams at home. After a bit of chitchat, he calmly asked, "Could I see the rug?," a reference to the Oriental rug that Adams was rumored to have improperly accepted. "No, I hadn't better show it to you," replied the innocent Mrs. Adams, thereby confirming its existence. Mollenhoff said a polite goodbye and soon splashed the whole story of the gifts across his papers...
...world was soon hemmed in with intrigue. With the help of France's Cardinal Mazarin she sought to occupy the throne of Naples. When her plans were betrayed by her Italian equerry, Giovanni Monaldeschi, she had him murdered while she coolly waited in the next room. The scandal forever ruined her chances to gain any throne, but it did not prevent her from being the reigning connoisseur of Rome...
...themselves, the living-room dialogues will not heal the scandal of divided Christianity. But Fathers Greenspun and Norgren believe that the climate of understanding created by the conversations is an indispensable prelude to organic church union. The participants at the Lamar home firmly agree. At one point, Mary Lamar raised the question of the value of the dialogues. "You have got to talk," answered Bettie Phillips' husband David. "Only as we talk together do we have any chance of drawing together." Added Herb Elliott: "Put it this way, Mary. You had to meet your husband and talk...
Born. To Christine Keeler, 24, cash-and-carry-on playgirl in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and James Levermore, 24, a civil engineer: their first child, a son; in London...