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President Pusey has denied that pressure from the Veritas Foundation prompted him to defend the Economics Department before alumni and to ask graduates "to eschew hearsay and innuendo, take a fresh look, undate your image of Harvard, and try to see this University as it truly...
...Katanga, territory of his bitter political foes, the Katangese Minister of the Interior said: "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply, 'Prove it.' " For six months, a U.N. Commission of Investigation* has been trying to prove it. Its report last week, based largely on hearsay, hunches and gossip, did not furnish proof, but added considerable evidence to show that Lumumba was indeed murdered in cold blood-and probably with the connivance of Moise Tshombe's own Katanga government...
Though Dulles, more than his predecessors, has allowed himself to become a public figure, most of the agency's exploits are actually a matter of hearsay. Despite expected denials, CIA was chiefly responsible for toppling Jacobo Arbenz' Red regime in Guatemala in 1954, and privately takes credit for it. It claims to have had advance dope on the British-French-Israeli Suez invasion. It correctly predicted the Hungarian uprising in 1956, directed the U-2 flights over Russia that provided the U.S. with some of its best intelligence on Russia-until they were called off after Pilot Powers...
...That is what everybody wonders, and what hearsay has made into a rising tide of suspicions, accusations, and resentment. There is a lot of curiosity, jealousy, and bitterness over Denver's hockey domination...
Danton Walker, Broadway columnist for the New York Daily News, was neither the first nor the best example of that vaguely journalistic genus, the gossipmonger. In his 23 years of reporting flack-work, rumor, trivia and hearsay, his wit was generally perishable, his essays at political thinking were often bottom drawer (Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista was "the most dynamic and forceful personality I ever interviewed"), his prophecies of events were mercifully forgotten, his items were usually inconsequential, though short enough to be mildly habit forming, like peanuts. But he was less given than his predecessors to malice in print...