Word: rumoring
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...Epps also discounted a rumor that the teach-in had been cancelled because the wires to the microphones had been cut. "Somebody came up to me after the meeting had been cancelled and said that the wires had been cut in back," Epps said...
...Republicans, Egeberg had been the Administration's second choice for the job of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The first choice, Dr. John Knowles, was dumped under pressure from conservatives in the American Medical Association. Within a year, rumor had it that Egeberg would be dumped as well. He had publicly agreed with critics who charged that President Nixon's federal health budget is inadequate...
...women were told, however- reportedly by Mary Rowe, wife of Richard R. Rowe, associate dean of the Faculty of Education- that a bust was scheduled for 2:30 p.m., and the rumor was confirmed early yesterday afternoon by an unidentified Harvard policeman...
Rowe said last night she heard the rumor from a Boston Globe reporter. Cox's press statement said only that "the planning of police action, which began in a preliminary way over the weekend, has been suspended," and he declined to comment further...
Both Steiner and Tonis denied a theory that the bust rumor was a University plant. "We had made a statement ready for 16 different contingencies," Steiner said...