Word: rumores
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...denies frequently and emphatically the persistent rumor that he wants to be president of Harvard. His real ambition, he says, his own personal conception of his life's work, is to be an outstanding professor of English, from the standpoint of both teaching and scholarship. He is proud of his two books and gets great satisfaction from the large attendance and favorable student reception his courses have gotten...
...average life span of Italian governments is only about ten months, but Premier Mariano Rumor's latest Cabinet (his fourth) could not even equal the norm. Formed eight months ago, following the departure of Premier Giulio Andreotti, the Rumor government collapsed last week because of a controversy over inflation controls...
...majority of them have included by necessity the small, mildly leftist Republican Party headed by Ugo La Malfa, 70. La Malfa deserted Andreotti in a dispute over state control of cable television. Last week, after a disagreement over fiscal policy, he announced that he would no longer serve as Rumor's Treasury Minister. La Malfa's Republicans followed him out of the coalition, and Rumor had no choice but to resign...
...Rumor will remain in place as caretaker while trying to form a new center-left coalition. Failing that a new Premier might have to resort to a one-party minority government. But the country's problems may be too much for such a government. Not only is there rampant inflation, widespread unemployment and an energy crisis, but Italy faces a spring referendum on repeal of a three-year-old divorce law that could split Italians along religious lines...
...exempted himself from the church's moral teachings. The Carrozzo letter talked of "a major problem involving one of the evangelists." A separate letter from departing Texas Minister Barry Chase charged "monumental immorality in the highest echelons of this church." What both letters skirted was the increasingly insistent rumor in church circles that Garner Ted, married and the father of three, had been a covert philanderer for many years. After some top churchmen complained to Herbert Armstrong three years ago, Garner Ted acknowledged a transgression "against God, his church ... and the wife God gave me." Garner Ted was, however...