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Cambridge rumor-mongers are at it again: Dean Bundy will supposedly become chief of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Rumor Heard From | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

Bundy, however, quashed this story, which reportedly started at a cocktail party last weekend. "I am quite busy here," he commented. End another rumor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Rumor Heard From | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...tenth Hussars, his father's regiment. On one occasion, according to Philippe Jullian in his book Edward and the Edwardians, "the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid . . . The young man's evil reputation soon spread. The rumor gained ground that he was Jack the Ripper . . ." Because of his unusually long neck, his father would tell children of the royal family, "Don't call him Uncle Eddy, call him Uncle-Eddy-Collars-and-Cuffs." Until his death at the age of 28 in 1892 from "influenza complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Who Was Jack the Ripper? | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...accelerated 50 credits a year instead of the usual 30. "I was skeptical about the SEEK program lasting," he says. "I don't believe in white altruism, and I thought it would be just another crumb, a token. At the end of every year there was a rumor that there'd be no more money." He found SEEK counselors basically helpful, though some of them were liberal whites "who were overpermissive," and others were middle-class blacks "who had pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and were in a way resentful of us." Kemp earned a bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harlem to Harvard | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...EDITOR'S REPLY: Rumor has it that the Corporation found God to be unacceptable because he does not have a "primary academic commitment...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau], | Title: The Mail THE PRESIDENCY | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

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