Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close to the White House. Born to a family of civil servants, Hoover first went to work for that "mammoth filing cabinet," the Library of Congress. From there he moved to the Justice Department, where he cleaned up its seamy, scandal-ridden investigative division and established "that monument to bureaucratic endeavor-a central fingerprint file." In the course of his career, Hoover has regularly exaggerated the FBI's accomplishments, writes Kraft. But why not? All federal bureaus, from the FCC to the Reclamation Bureau, do the same. While Hoover has a reputation for being his own boss...
Helping the Liberals? The leadership tangle dismays many Conservatives who could hope to gain in new elections at the expense of Mike Pearson's scandal-smudged Liberal government. This week, as the second session of Parliament reconvenes in Ottawa, Pearson faces questioning about the latest scandal, this one concerning a U.S. operator named Harry Stonehill who was supposedly asked for a payoff by immigration officials when he sought a Canadian residency permit...
What made the scandal possible was the academy's rigid honor code-and, perhaps, the high-pressured tempo of a relatively new institution still on shakedown maneuvers. Academy exams, like those at approximately one-fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will...
...Secretary Zuckert as much as admitted that there might be a need for reform by appointing a special five-man board to review the "fundamental programs" of the academy. But if changes are made, they will come far too late to help any of the cadets involved in the scandal. Those who simply failed to report the cheaters will probably be given honorable discharges; the exam salesmen may be subject to courts-martial and dishonorable discharge...
Zuckert will not review the cases for another two or three months. Until then, cadets returning home are still considered members of the Air Force; all have been given strict orders not to discuss the scandal, which left parents and friends in doubt over whether they were cheaters or had only tolerated cheating by others. The Air Force labeled the investigation "classified"; students who talked were threatened with dishonor able discharges and denial of the right to transfer their academic credits to an other school. It was, as one cadet parent put it, "a pretty strong weapon"−as well...