Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumor had swirled through Madrid well before Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez confirmed it late last week: two U.S. officials were expelled from Spain earlier this month for "activities incompatible with their diplomatic status." According to diplomats in the Spanish capital, Denis MacMahan, a political officer in the U.S. embassy, and John Massey, an official at the air base in nearby Torrejon, were discovered taking photographs of the radio antennas atop Moncloa Palace, the Prime Minister's office and home...
...John B. Fog Jr. '59 would be leaving his post as Dean of the College. Since he won't oc doing so for a while, and may not depart University Hall 4 until the end of the next academic year, a full post-mortem treatment would be premature. With rumor beginning to circulate about a successor, however, a few words about Fox and the post he will leave behind seem more than appropriate...
...deteriorating health. But the newspaper insisted that Gorbachev was still the likely successor, even if Chernenko might remain, in a strictly ceremonial capacity, as President of the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev's main competitor for the leadership, the Sunday Times said, was still Politburo Member Grigori Romanov, 61. Yet another rumor circulating in the corridors of Whitehall had it that the late Defense Minister Ustinov had left a last will and testament urging the Politburo to choose Gorbachev as party leader...
Whenever a cardinal is named who is head of diocese, it's really a recognition of the diocese. After all, I was in Missouri for ten years and no one ever had a rumor about me being named a cardinal. I'm the same person I was then, now! The difference is that I happen to be the Archbishop of Boston. That is a focus on the importance of the place...
...only other precelebration flap involved Nancy Reagan's wardrobe. In an interview two weeks ago the First Lady had dismissed as "ridiculous" a rumor that her new Inaugural dresses and accessories would cost as much as $25,000. Checking out that flat disclaimer, Washington Post Fashion Writer Nina Hyde discovered it was true in an unexpected sense: if purchased at retail, the Inaugural wardrobe would cost about $46,000. Hyde carefully pointed out that the First Lady's favorite designers are often just too happy for Nancy to showcase their creations and thus sell to her at a discount...