Word: hoax
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...pleased he was: "I pondered your nice picture," he wrote. "Let me tell you that many children in the world are born good like you, but many, when they grow up, lose theirgood will toward our people." Yasser Colbert is not likely to. The whole affair was a hoax perpetrated by a determined autograph collector, Robert Colbert, an out-of-work machine operator. He had tried the same trick without success on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon and Vice President Rockefeller, using a picture of his son Robert, now 12, when he was a baby. Robert likes his shifting names. Says...
...Leonid Brezhnev was coming to Boston to be treated for leukemia, or so announced the Boston Globe earlier this month. Trouble was, the Russian leader never showed up. Last week it became clear that the Globe had been the victim of another grand old journalistic tradition: the hoax...
After checking some more and getting no flat denials of-the report, the Globe front-paged the story, only to learn that it had been had. After tracing down the genesis of the hoax, Editor Thomas Winship admitted last week: "We got egg all over our face...
...mysterious duplicate of itself, reported sunk on its last voyage. Is he surrounded, then, by ghosts? Or is the captain out to smash determinism by carrying his ship safely past a meeting with its foreshadowed self? As adventures and mysteries multiply, a third possibility begins to appear: a hoax, launched by a vaudeville magician, swelling out of control, may be engulfing both perpetrators and dupes alike...
Robert S. Kukla, a midwestern director of the NRA who flew into Boston for last year's hearinns on gun control, said in his testimony that "gun control constitutes a monumental hoax upon the American public. It is merely a diversion from concentration on the laws, regulations and procedures by which criminals should be incarcerated...