Word: hoaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. Having sacrificed practically all she own when she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her aged lover's arms, only to find that he has duped her. The ransom was a profiteering hoax, and he leaves her stranded on the African shore...
...newspaper series ended. That's not Martin Bormann they think they found in South America. It's Howard Hughes. Or . . . Ladislas Farago is just a fancy new pen name for Clifford Irving. The allusions were inevitable. Farago himself expected them. Indeed, when Clifford Irving's hoax autobiography of the recluse billionaire was exposed ten months ago, Farago decided to delay his research on Bormann until the din died down. "I said to myself," he recalled last week, "no matter what I'm going to do, this is going to be regarded in the same category. Even...
...hoax, which was distributed in House dining halls early yesterday morning, fooled students, many of whom were still hung over from post-game partying...
...page Yale hoax reported that Kissinger would reassume a professorship next semester after four years as special assistant to President Nixon. The paper quoted President Bok as saying. "It is likely that there is a substantial element of truth in the reports of Dr. Kissinger's return to our faculty...
...what appears to be a breakthrough for a people previously excluded from this important medium is instead another cruel hoax played on the black community. Blacks have been let into the movies, but only in roles that perpetuate derogatory stereotypes or create counter-productive myths...