Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jenkins was more deeply implicated in the Bobby Baker scandal. During the Senate investigation, Maryland Insurance Broker Don Reynolds testified under oath that while he was trying to sell a $100,000 policy to Lyndon Johnson, Jenkins forced him to buy $1,208 worth of advertising time on Lady Bird Johnson's KTBC television station in Austin. Reynolds said he had no use for the advertising, but bought it anyway "because it was expected of me." "Who conveyed that thought to you?" asked Nebraska's Republican Senator Carl Curtis. Replied Reynolds: "Mr. Walter Jenkins...
...Kansas City, Goldwater declared: "The man who now occupies the White House could stand on the side of truth. Instead, he is standing firmly and coldly on the side of deceit and cover-up . . . The White House remains silent in the face of scandal, grave suspicion, and a sense of national doubt unequaled in our time!" In Harlingen, Texas, he said: "The people have looked at the White House and have found it dark with scandal. The people have looked at the man who now occupies the White House and have found him shadowed by suspicions which no amount...
Illinois: Republican Charles H. Percy, 45, the former whiz-kid board chairman of Bell & Howell Co., is ahead of Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, 56, recently staggered by scandal in his first-term administration...
...balance, Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home fought a remarkable fight. A year ago, as an aristocratic amateur, he had inherited a party shattered by the Profumo scandal and enervated by a dozen years in power. They laughed when he sat down on the government front bench-but when he started to play politics, he very nearly led his party to victory. To a large extent, of course, it was a contest of personalities...
Three major events broke with an abruptness that gave editors little time for orderly planning: the Walter Jenkins scandal, the deposing of Soviet Premier Khrushchev, the detonation of Communist China's first Abomb. Along with these came another flurry of fast-breaking news, including the new Nobel prizewinners and the unveiling of the U.S.'s controversial TFX fighter-bomber. And, as if that were not enough, newspapers had to cope with such predictable front-page stuff as the wind-up of the World Series, the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and the British elections...