Word: rumoring
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...purpose bail-bond credit card (if arrested), air mattress (in event of prolonged incarceration or inability to return to hotel because of trans portation problems), bottled water (should yippies manage to turn on the Chicago water supply with a lacing of LSD or other hallucinogens), canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries where delegates are staying would be garnished with ground glass), ham radio (no phone service), walkie-talkie (if radio fails), chrysanthemums (for flower power if cornered by militant hippies), first-aid kit, gross of aspirin, and finally, a passepartout, collectively endorsed by A.D.A., Y.I.P...
They Went Ape. It is too early, of course, to measure the experiment's results, but its effect on Tehachapi's 1,320 inmates has been electric. "When this first came over the rumor wire, we couldn't believe it," says Fred Long, 25, who has been in and out of prison for the past nine years. "Then when the guys found out it was true, they just went ape. The bachelors were screaming, 'I knew I should have got married, I knew it!' One guy told me he was getting married as soon...
...damp down rumors that often lead to riots?a report that a pregnant Negro woman had been beaten by police helped precipitate the 1965 uprising ?Los Angeles, like other cities, has set up rumor-control centers. If an inflammatory incident occurs, police immediately tell their side of the story to the local rumor-control officer. He calls four friends and each of them calls four more; the chain continues until a large part of the community knows that there are at least two sides to the story. "It's very loose-knit," admits Reddin, "but it gets the word...
...When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle," he says. "I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle." But if he has not reconciled the two institutions, he has at least bridged them. As for the future, Paris rumor has it that, during the tumult, Pompidou reached a clear but tacit agreement with De Gaulle on when the President would retire. Whether that is true or not, when a lonely, shaken De Gaulle was planning his now famous rendezvous with French generals, he found time to telephone Pompidou. De Gaulle...
...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...