Word: rumoring
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...months, the island had buzzed with the rumor. Last week it became official. Characteristically, the man who made it so was Puerto Rico's Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, the target of San Juan's busy tongues. A quiet, pipe-smoking grandfather known for his "illustrious conscience," Sanchez confessed to the people of his Roman Catholic country that he had left his wife of 30 years and would leave politics at the end of his four-year term in 1968-all for the woman he loves...
...gossips had been busy since January. At first the rumor was that William McChesney Martin, 60, wanted to retire when his current four-year term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board expires March 31. Shortly after that was denied, word got around that President Johnson did not intend to reappoint Martin. Last week a Pebble Beach, Calif., bankers' conference hummed with talk that the President had finally made up his mind. He had written Martin, so the story went, asking him to serve a fifth term as chairman...
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Eighteenth century Londoners frequented Richard Sheridan's classroom of comedy to be taught their three Rs: the Risque, Rumor, Revenge. The APA go through their lessons with a flick of their wits...
Labeling the book an "astonishing propaganda instrument based on unfounded rumor, distortion and inconsistency," Connally promised to publish his own version of the events...
Northeastern has a fine cross-country team. It walloped the Crimson in a dual meet this fall. The Huskies' leading distance man from that squad--sophomore Bob Bruen--will give Jim Baker quite a tussle. But Bruen, according to rumor, may not run. If not, things will be a lot easier for Baker and for Doug Hardin in the two-mile...