Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARDLY any Administration is free of scandal. Harry Truman had T. Lamar Caudle and assorted "five-percenters." Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams and his vicuna coat. Lyndon Johnson had Bobby Baker-and Abe Fortas. To a cynical public, the recurrent surfacing of peculators and huggermuggers suggests that almost everyone in Washington is on the take. The truth is more reassuring, though bad enough. The capital does tolerate unsavory practices that could and should be stopped...
Died. Eddie Cicotte, 84, oldtime Chicago pitching ace and central figure in the 1919 World Series scandal that marked baseball's darkest hour; of cancer; in Detroit. In that tainted series, the American League's Chicago White Sox were heavy favorites over the National League's Cincinnati Reds, and Cicotte, with a 29-7 season's record, was a good bet to win at least two games. But gamblers offered Eddie and seven of his teammates several thousand dollars to throw the sport's most vaunted prize. "Black Sox," screamed the fans...
...disruptions now being experienced in university communities. In the very period of the world's greatest need for education, the number of institutions of higher learning being shut down, or in which scholarly work is made virtually impossible, for varying periods of time here and abroad, is a scandal. The hours and days and terms wasted in turmoil and emotional distress by students and faculty are beyond calculation. On many campuses for long periods of time learning has almost ceased; and research if it has moved at all, has only limped along. Serious intellectual work cannot be accomplished...
...that was good and holy in America--and, at the time, little but the New Yorker was--had become something of an enfant terrible who seemd to be puckishly plucking away at the nation's G-string. For besides needling the New Yorker, Wolfe was also a satorial scandal. In mid-winter he wore white suits, in summer, bright orange--all in a definitely pre-Krackerjackian era. And the people he wrote about! People like Baby Jane Holzer, Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Junior Johnson--the very inhabitants of Confidential and Hot Rod who had usurped the right...
Over the years, three prison officials have lost their jobs for permitting Licavoli special favors. The latest scandal occurred in 1958, when a state police investigation showed that Licavoli was being allowed unauthorized visitors by the superintendent, who accepted presents from Licavoli's friends and even turned up as a guest at the Detroit wedding of Licavoli's daughter. One of Licavoli's visitors was Teamster President James R. Hoffa, now doing time at the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., for jury tampering. Only a month ago, Licavoli was transferred from prison to a private hospital...