Word: rumoring
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After several months of relative inactivity following the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the Moscow rumor mill last week was once again grinding away. The first major items of interest concerned the state of health and whereabouts of Communist Party Leader Yuri Andropov, 68. Then, as if tales of an Andropov illness were not intriguing enough, the official Soviet news agency TASS set off a new round of speculation with a terse two-line communique announcing the promotion of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, to the post of First Deputy Premier...
...suit climaxed a ten-month federal investigation of "dirty tricks" that Braniff said were played on it last year by American in an attempt to retaliate against low Braniff fares. According to one rumor, American pilots were causing delays on runways to disrupt Braniff flights. Another had American dawdling in the delivery of some $9 million in cash from Braniff tickets bought through American...
...Nassau, Whitaker wired the pictures to London, through New York City Editors who saw them im New York, he marvels, made offers totaling £150,000. The huge figure is believable. Picture agency editors are more secretive than nerve-gas manufacturers, but the rumor is that one big European weekly paid $35,000 for one of the bikini shots. Less sensational photos of Diana might bring anything from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, depending on the exclusivity and news value of a commodity that fluctuates like pork bellies. A top freelancer, among the dozen or so covering...
...Coming from the decentralized administration of Harvard. Klaus said he had been warned that the Senate was a highly centralized organization, where arm twisting leadership would mandate voting patterns. However, he didn't find the legislative power-brokers he expected, he discovered instead "a building which runs entirely on rumor. It's the only place I've been where you can get rumor first-hand from the principal of the rumor...
...Parliament, which he calls "the talking shop." He is further nettled by his son's marriage to the daughter of a financier, whose occupation Sir Arthur views as "almost as low as being in trade." The old man also rails at the spread of public education and the rumor that some London clubs are using billiard balls composed not exclusively of ivory...