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Warren Beatty. He's so vain that the song is apparently about him, at least according to Stephen Davis. Of course the whole thing's completely unverified, mere rumor, but the profile of Beatty in a recent Walter Scott Personality Parade makes him sound like a swell candidate. Anyway, good to see healthy revelation coming in with Ma Nature's second half offensive. This weather's going to make it real hard to change the shredded front tire on my car. To the music...
...than he ever had, before or since. From 1887 on, The Crimson became almost the official bulletin board of the University, and the Faculty used it often for all manner of official notices. In that decade, the President assumed control of the editorials, the Secretary wrote the "Fact and Rumor" column, and the Managing Editor was responsible for everything else. Thus, although the M.E. did the lion's share of the work, setting up the paper and making assignments, it was the President who guided the paper's policies, subject to the general consent of the Board. Henry James...
Marcos announced the tough new action in a report on the first 100 days of martial law. Unscrupulous politicians, he said, had abused the removal of restrictions on free speech "to resume influence peddling" and foment rumor, anxiety and disorder. He declared that rumormongering would henceforth be considered a subversive crime...
...hair length. When Townsend announced extensions of tour, one crew member claimed, he would say it was "a blessing in disguise." In such an atmosphere, already tense because of the long work hours and few shore leaves, little irritations festered into permanent sores, and idle talk ballooned into wild rumor...
Some scuffling between blacks and whites began in early October. The blacks circulated-and believed-a report that the whites had hired a karate expert to intimidate them. They also took umbrage at a rumor that two blacks who had slugged whites had been thrown into the brig, while a white who had beaten up a black was given only a warning. Just before the riot, frequent fights flashed through an enlisted men's club in Subic Bay, where the ship was docked for resupply and recreation...