Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-righteously, they announced they were printing it only because so many people had asked them about it. Readers had even assumed that Rockefeller withdrew because the scandal was about to be exposed in their column. They were happy to report, they said, that there was "no truth" to it. Their own investigation had proved that the "Rockefeller second marriage is most harmonious and compatible...
...this usually amounts to what Penologist Howard Gill calls "birdshot penology." All the bands, baseball, radios and rodeos cannot gloss the fact that real rehabilitation is rare. Caging still outranks curing; short funds dilute short-stay effectiveness. And prison job-training is a scandal. Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
...Yorty's budget was replaced by a we're-glad-to-be-here editorial in the Orange County edition. Two pages of less important local news stories were added, along with two more pages of Orange County classified advertising. The sports section carried stories on a scandal involving athlete-recruiting in Orange County high schools and Amigos' (of speculation the about American the Basketball Anaheim Association) moving their playing head quarters to a new arena...
Contrite Candor. Mentioned in another AID scandal was Max M. Kampelman, 47, a Washington lawyer who served as Humphrey's legislative assistant for six years and is still regarded as a close political confidant of the Vice President's. Representing a Minneapolis company called Napco Industries Inc., Kampelman signed a $2,300,000 loan agreement with AID in 1962 to send auto-parts plant equipment to New Delhi. Napco failed to deliver, and the Justice Department recently filed suit to collect...
...Naval Academy. As at all schools, it is strictly forbidden at Annapolis. But last week Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, the academy's superintendent, dismissed 13 midshipmen who had admitted to smoking pot in a dormitory room of Bancroft Hall. It was the second drug scandal to hit Annapolis: four middies were dismissed last June for using marijuana...