Word: scapegoat
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...Dulles, head of CIA: down in an ambiguous way. His standing as an intelligence chief inevitably dropped, but his standing as a man went up because he did not try to shift blame from himself (in the Eisenhower Administration, Allen Dulles also had offered himself up as a political scapegoat during the U-2 affair...
...rush to select a scapegoat, most newsmen nominated the Central Intelligence Agency. "America would be safer," said the Raleigh News and Observer, if CIA Chief Allen Dulles "were allowed to depart, taking his frayed cloak and blunt dagger with him into private life." Chicago's American indicted the CIA for "a gigantic goof," and even Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt suggested mildly that the CIA "was not very well informed...
...from Jack W. Minor, a Chrysler marketing director ousted when it was found that, like Newberg, he had profited from ownership in the automaker's suppliers. And like Newberg (TIME, Jan. 27), Minor claimed that Chrysler had known about his relations with the suppliers, said he was a scapegoat for top company officials to cover up their own sins, and asked $200,000 for damages and money he said the company owed him. Chrysler snapped back that Minor's assertions were "not justified by the facts...
...been played for a sucker. Last week Newberg, who was forced out because of profits he had made from ownership in two of the company's suppliers, sued Chrysler. He charged that Chrysler Chairman Lester Lum Colbert and fellow board members had used him as a scapegoat to prevent discovery of "incompetence, maladministration, neglect, breaches of duty and self-dealing" on their part. He asked for cancellation of his agreement to pay Chrysler the $455,000 profit he had made from the suppliers. He has already paid $200,000; the court postponed the $65,000 installment due this month...
...brief, Newberg claimed that Colbert had long known of his interests in the suppliers. In fact, Mrs. Newberg claims that she was asked by Mrs. Colbert to get her son a summer job as a laborer with one of the companies. Newberg said he was made the scapegoat because the company management was threatened with "wholesale investigations" by stockholders disgruntled at low earnings. In the nine weeks that he was president, Newberg said he had uncovered evidence of "favoritism, and preference of certain friends, relatives and intimates of top executives...