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Last week Brooke got the opportunity he wanted: a chance before the Senate Ethics Committee to cleanse his name of some of the tarnish accumulated from his messy divorce settlement with ex-Wife Remigia. Brooke's troubles with the committee began in June, when it opened an investigation into whether he had borrowed thousands of dollars, as indicated by a deposition he had given to Remigia's lawyers, and then failed to report the loans to the secretary of the Senate, as required by law. Earlier this month, Committee Counsel Richard Wertheimer resigned, angrily complaining that Brooke's "representatives...
...hold on a second, Boston is not as theatrically limp as it might seem, for this week brings us a whole bunch of actual, guaranteed-not-to-tarnish Broadway plays. Except for one thing. They're all about ten years old, or, at any rate, we saw them in New York before we even knew what SAT's were...
This summer at various times, many public television stations are airing 26 episodes of the series, which has not been seen since it was discontinued in 1959. Intended as a tribute to a TV great, this revival may actually tarnish the Murrow legend. The years have not been kind to Person to Person. As one watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every...
...Barre has earned a reputation as a formidable inflation fighter. His success in keeping prices down was crucial in helping President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's center-right coalition win last March's bitter elections. Yet the professor's record is beginning to tarnish. Since December, when consumer prices rose at an annual rate of only 3.7%, inflation has worsened every month, to an alarming rate of 14% during April...
...disturbed about the recent leftist coup in Afghanistan and the continuing rioting in Iran. On the other hand, he has worked hard to earn a reputation as a liberal who has restored a multiparty system and political freedom after the Nasser dictatorship, and he does not want to tarnish that image...