Word: hoax
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...least one level, it certainly had. Peking in splenetic fury denounced the peace offensive as a "trick," a "hoax," and "the greatest show on earth," featuring "freaks and monsters," meaning, presumably, the U.S. envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin...
Back home in Hawaii, Miyawaki gave a scrutably Oriental reason why he had undertaken the hoax: filial piety. His parents, he explained, "so much wished me to be a doctor that I could not let them down." Miyawaki still has a wistful sense of what might have been. "The oral examination wasn't hard," he says. "I think the reason I failed was my presentation. They asked me simple questions, and I tried to tell them about the latest research in the area of each question. I just flipped...
...seduced her winsome, scheming stepdaughter (Samantha Eggar), first in line for the family fortune. Ingrid appears incognito, hair darkened, the scars of her concentration-camp ordeal erased by surgery, and is not recognized at first because that would spoil the plot. She falls into a mistaken-identity hoax engineered by Samantha, soon finds herself impersonating a woman who is hired to impersonate her real self...
...told them what they had dug up for a map was a hoax and a fraud and they probably drew the map up themselves," he said. "They're perpetrating a fraud on the millions of Italian-Americans in the United States...
Politics captured the attention of some of the freshmen, but most were given to more lighthearted pursuits. In the Spring of 1937, for instance, 1500 students attended a hoax lecture on birth control. The biggest lark of the season, though, was the riot. It started innocently enough one May evening with a water fight on Plympton St. A crowd gathered, and by midnight some 2500 students had packed the Square. The rioters strained the patience of the Cambridge police by disconnecting the power lines of three trolleys, thus rendering them unfit to carry passengers. Finally the police used tear...