Word: rumores
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...drug made many a serviceman's skin turn yellow. Today's malaria preventives have no such drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat out the tablets after they had passed the issue line...
...such fairs are now held yearly, from London and Milan to Basel and Budapest. The fairs have become more a matter of pride than pocketbook for image-conscious European firms, many of which try to exhibit at all of them, fearing that failure to exhibit might start a rumor that a company was in trouble. On such a scale, exhibitions can be very expensive; German companies allot $375 million yearly to fairs, or about half as much as they spend on all advertising. Such smaller companies as porcelain makers or optical works may hope to recoup their outlay in sales...
...paucity of facts in Moscow lends a certain credibility to every rumor about the Kremlin, especially when it concerns the supposed ups and downs of Nikita Khrushchev.* Thus it was last week that a whisper from Moscow via Rome became a blast of hot air felt around the world...
Real diamonds of impressive size turn up occasionally. One. found by Mrs. A. L. Parker of Dallas in 1956, weighed 15.38 carats, and has been valued at $85,000. How many others have been found is something of a mystery. One local rumor suggests that many are picked up but to avoid income tax are not reported. A contrary rumor holds that the field is sometimes salted with rough diamonds to stir up tourist interest. A third rumor whispers that Arkansas would be a major diamond producer if an international diamond combine had not managed somehow to block every attempt...
...rumor had been stirring up the South for weeks-from Florida baseball training camps to Birmingham bars and Richmond restaurants. The Saturday Evening Post, so the story went, was planning to print "a shocking report" of how former Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts and Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant "rigged a game last fall." When the Post finally came out last week, the well-publicized story was tucked away strangely on the back pages, but it was every bit as sensational as billed...