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...building, you would have seen a few hundred people standing outside. Most of them were laughing about the threat, how silly the whole thing was, how ridiculous it was that their classes were canceled, or how it didn't bother them at all. They knew the bomb was a hoax, or so they told themselves. But don't let the laughter fool you; they were scared...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: The Ethics of Dying | 10/20/1976 | See Source »

Spiro M. Pavlovich III, the Law School student indicted last February for forging documents to secure admission to Harvard, has long since gone underground, but the famed hoax he allegedly perpetrated is bringing permanent changes to admissions procedures at the Law School...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Pavlovich Case Spurs Official Change | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

...interview last fall with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore, he told one lie too many. Cord told the interviewer he was a big-time college placekicker, and the interviewer, who knew his football, got suspicious and contacted the University, and the greatest hoax in Harvard's history began to unfold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The ones who got caught. | 6/17/1976 | See Source »

...turned over 22 letters to the unnamed woman. Meredith added that two graphologists have verified the handwriting. Said he: "I'm not satisfied yet that they're authentic, but my instinct tells me they are." A San Clemente spokesman described it all as "a sordid hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1976 | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...handwriting in an earlier court case. After a hurried examination, she declared: "There is a good chance that Mr. Hughes did write that will." The Mormons then rushed to Las Vegas, the seat of Clark County, to file the testament. "It could be an actual legal document or a hoax," said Mormon Spokesman Wendell Ashton. "This was a hot potato to land in our office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Hughes Will: Is It for Real? | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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