Word: hoax
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...Summer School fell victim this summer to a popular hoax: the non-existent student. A group of Harvard graduate students, several holding junior positions on the Summer School administration, created a Princeton junior, Barton Durstine Osborne, and engineered his admission to the Summer School...
...Cruel Hoax." Still and all, Bill Miller entered 1964 as a politician without a visible political future. In 1962, he won re-election to Congress by a scant 5,702 votes out of 139,710 cast, and the prospects for this year were worse. Among other things, he could expect little help from Governor Rockefeller's state organization, since he and Rocky had been at odds off and on for a long time. He therefore announced that he would retire from Congress and return to his law practice in Buffalo...
...government is no less than a thrilling experience." But in a news conference, he gave a foretaste of the campaign to come. Said he: "I'm tired of the Democrats trying to create problems at election time so they can solve them. The poverty program is a cruel hoax. You couldn't cure poverty in New York City with a billion dollars. Who knows anything about poverty in this Administration? Bobby Baker is the chief expert on poverty in Washington...
...still no sign of the missing men. Some people shared the suspicion voiced by Neshoba County Sheriff L. A. Rainey: "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity for this part of the state." But with each passing day, the possibility of a hoax seemed less and less likely. Whatever their fate, whether dead or alive, the case of the three young civil rights workers would reverberate around the U.S. for the rest of this summer and beyond...
...rightfielder of the Minnesota Twins is a hoax. He calls himself Tony, but his name is Pedro. He has claimed to be 27, but he is really 22. He swings a bat as though he were waving goodbye to his grandmother. And he is probably the only ballplayer in the major leagues who got turned down twice by the minors. But none of that is likely to keep Tony-or Pedro-Oliva from becoming Rookie of the Year and, just possibly, the only player in history to win the American League batting championship in his first big-league season...