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Speaking of paranoia (and with these assassination things it's usually not that the fanatics are more paranoid than the rest of us-only that they bother to study the cases). Anyway, one rumor that's been floating around is that reading period is so short and to the point this year because the administration is trying to alleviate the housing shortage for next term. Get the connection...
...particularly in my business activities and various attempts at blackmail." Thus, in a strangely unrepentant, even jaunty mood, did Labor M.P. and International Financier John Stonehouse explain in a telegram to Prime Minister Harold Wilson a mysterious disappearance that for 33 days had Britain buzzing with rumor and speculation (see TIME, Dec. 30). Last seen on Nov. 20 setting off for a jog on the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel and since then widely presumed to have drowned, Stonehouse had been variously alleged to be a victim of the Mafia, a Czech spy, a CIA agent...
Bennett also claims to be the man who started the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead. As more "clues" were broadcast each day, Bennett's station, KGB, doubled its share of the market. He has even been known to arrange for local record stores to feed competing stations false information about best-selling records. The bamboozled competitor plays losing tunes while Bennett's own station blasts out the real biggies. In that ultimate radio-ratings booster, the random phone-call contest, Bennett is like a child feeding ducks on a pond. At a station in Miami, he once...
...Coke from the work-bench while fishing a long, black cigar from his pocket. With his jutting teeth and bulging fish-eyes, this pale, slightly stooped man appears to have been in his share of crashes. He is talking in a soft, imploring voice with his chief mechanic. Rumor has it Ferrari will sack him after this race, the season's finale. Though he has won two Grand Prix this year, he has also crashed twice while leading. As they converse, two sleek and fashionable women wander carelessly about...
...strong government might be able to take the stern measures that would restore confidence. Unfortunately, a strong government seems almost impossible with the present equation of Italian politics. A center-left coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, headed by former Premier Mariano Rumor, fell apart last month over what measures should be taken to deal with the emergency, and President Giovanni Leone has so far been unable to find anyone who can patch together another government. Amintore Fanfani, the secretary of the Christian Democrats and perhaps the strongest political figure in the country, tried and failed. Last week Leone asked...