Word: hoax
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Plimpton--a former Lainpoon editor--and Stewart, both contacted in New York yesterday, said that they were surprised that so many people fell for the hoax...
When the TV broadcaster found out that Finch was a fake, Plimpton added, he called the article a "cruel hoax...
...Schroeder are mounds of dog-eared folders stuffed with exhibits and testimony. But nowhere in them are the answers to two key questions: why Stern's normally tough- minded managers fell for the forgery without taking precautions to authenticate their find, and whether Heidemann was a party to the hoax or a victim...
...scheme was nearly revealed prematurely. In conversation with an ambassador from one of the socialist countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Yakov Malik could not resist the temptation to show off. He told the envoy that the U-2 pilot was alive and would testify publicly. Fortunately for Khrushchev's hoax, the ambassador was security conscious and immediately informed the Central Committee of this chat...
...wishes. During the Torrijos years, he worked on a novel, Monsignor Quixote, about the adventures of a simple village priest abroad in the world. In Panama, he was a real-life counterpart. By his own evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...