Word: hoaxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Echo in the U.S. Well aware that a successful turnout would destroy their claim to represent the South Vietnamese people, the Viet Cong condemned the election weeks in advance as a "hoax." It was so rigged, they said, that its results would be on U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's desk days before the actual balloting. By clandestine radio, furtive pamphlet and whispered word of mouth, they warned the peasants to boycott the polls on pain of death. To make sure that their message was understood, during election week Viet Cong terrorists killed 190 civilians, wounded 426 and kidnaped another...
Right up to the moment that the billowing blue percale veil covering Pablo Picasso's 50-ft. sculpture came tumbling down last week in Chicago, the debate continued. Was it a bird, a woman, an Afghan hound, a Barbary ape, a cruel hoax, a Communist plot, or Superman? Alderman John J. Hoellen introduced a resolution in the city council to replace the work with a statue of Chicago Cubs First Baseman Ernie Banks. And Alderman Thomas Rosenberg countered with a proposal to send a statue of Alderman Hoellen to Paris' redlit Pigalle. Mused the Chicago Sun-Times: "Picasso...
...Richard Burack--the Harvard physician who exposed the drug pricing hoax--is no Ralph Nader. Despite the comparison Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D.-Wisc.) made on the Senate floor two weeks ago, Burack is not a full-fledged muckraker--not yet. He does not want to do battle with the big drug companies; his book does not directly blast them for reaping exorbitant profits on brand name drugs. And Burack tries to be as calm and full of understatement as his book. "My business is education," he says. "I have nothing against these firms; they are trying to make a profit...
...their "heroism," the Hills were so upset by the publicity that they charged LIFE with having "fictionalized" their experience to serve "commercial purposes." While accurately reporting the play, they argued, LIFE inaccurately reported them as having been mistreated. However sympathetic the story, they said, the magazine had "perpetrated a hoax on its readers...
Music professionals unanimously condemn the Monkees as the greatest public relations hoax since Ronald Reagan's rise to political prominence. At least California's governor-elect was an accomplished actor before he swapped vocations; the Monkees were still theatrical amateurs. That they can perform their cut-rate version of A Hard Day's Night every Monday night at 7:30 is a dismal reflection of the power of big money and connections in the music industry. The boys themselves are fully aware of their freakish birth and, for now, speak of "The Group" in a subdued whisper. "You know that...