Word: rumoring
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...people said they thought Dylan was into suicide. I doubt it. He had a motorcycle accident that the public wasn't told about, and spent a long time recovering, first in a hospital, then in a neck brace. For two years he didn't put out a record. Rumor has it that he was trying to break his recording contract with Columbia because he had wanted the two records of Blonde on Blonde to be released individually instead of in a package. He lived in Woodstock, New York, making a new film and editing one that had already been shot...
...world had hardly learned of Martin Luther King's murder in Memphis before speculation began that the civil rights leader had been the victim of a well-planned conspiracy. The rumor mills were lubricated in part by the assiduously cultivated doubts that some still entertain about the killing of John F. Kennedy. In this case, however, the conspiracy theorists could point to the fact that, though the gunman was clearly identified, he remained -for all the far-flung resources of the FBI-mysteriously at large...
Chicago's toll of eleven deaths, 911 injuries, 3,965 arrests and $11 million in damage might have soared far higher without the efforts of Rumor Central, a ten-month-old agency that checked out reports and squelched unfounded fears. Praised by the Kerner riot commission for its work during last year's strife, Rumor Central added 35 volunteers to its staff of 47 and in this year's five-day flare-up handled 40,000 telephone calls-most of them concerning such fantasies as the lynching of two nuns and the landing of Stokely Carmichael from...
Chicago's WMAQ, aware from painful experience that TV newsmen have become prime targets for rioters, last week assigned 35 bodyguards to accompany film crews into the ghettos. Boston Mayor Kevin White, following the practice of Chicago and Los Angeles, set up a rumor-control center in his office where TV newsmen checked their facts with the mayor and his aides, who manned telephones linked to the police department and storefront command posts in the Roxbury ghetto. In Washington to offset the impression given by smoke-shrouded aerial photos that the capital was an inferno, WTOP televised a wall...
...that Pearson-Anderson left it at that. Who, after all, had started the rumors? They said it was supporters of Richard Nixon, who has "compiled dossiers" on all possible Republican competitors for the presidency. "The rumor mill is going to play a part in the coming campaign," they declared solemnly, "and we write this to warn that the American public should be prepared for it." Disputing the Pearson-Anderson thesis, the New York Times said that the source of the rumors was not the Nixon camp but "aides of Governor George Romney...