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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred LaBour, music critic for the Michigan U. Daily, offered what he calls "a working hypothesis" about the alleged hoax in an article last Tuesday...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Beatle Hoax Rumored: Paul Dead Since 1966 | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

John J. Small, coordinator of WNKRFM, said yesterday that "whether Paul is dead or alive, there is a hoax here somewhere. The Beatles have a definite preoccupation with Paul's death-physical, spiritual, or fictional...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Beatle Hoax Rumored: Paul Dead Since 1966 | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...universities' negligence was "an extremely serious failure when stacked up against the amount of intellectual acumen and resources available." As a consequence of this abdication, corporate America has been able to mount an institutionalized assault on everything of value in American society: the free choice marketplace is a hoax: the Great Lakes verge on irreversible pollution; the social system is "productive but imbalanced...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...Fine, but who is the temptress on the book jacket? She's Billie Young, a Long Island housewife, mother of six, and not incidentally, McGrady's sister-in-law, who managed to sell the manuscript to Publisher Lyle Stuart with a straight face. Stuart learned of the hoax only after he had agreed to publish, and now gamely insists he was even more delighted than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoaxes: Penelope's Playmates | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...criticism. Stephanie Mills, 20, of Mills College in Oakland, Calif., concludes that the only "humane" thing she could do was to avoid bearing children. Miss Mills is no dropped-out radical; she is her class valedictorian, and renounced parenthood in a commencement speech entitled "The Future Is a Cruel Hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: YOUTH: THE JEREMIADS OF JUNE | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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