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...Helmick's wife surveyed the scene and termed it "legal bribery." Helmick told TIME that his wife saw I.O.C. delegates from the East bloc returning from shopping trips with bid officials, laden with Escada clothing and other $500 purchases. The I.O.C. could no longer claim such solicitation was "just rumor." In 1986 the committee put a $150 limit on gifts and insisted that travel tickets be nonrefundable...
Bill Clinton has been dogged for years by the rumor that in Arkansas he fathered a child of an African-American prostitute. In 1992 the tale was flogged by the tabloid Globe. But it really took off last week when news leaked that the tabloid Star was conducting DNA tests to confirm or refute the rumor once and for all, provoking a frenzy of speculation in Washington after the story leaped, in the usual fashion, from the Drudge Report to the New York Post to papers around the world. Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton...
Some of the stories about her shaded into fantasy and wishful thinking. Reporters buzzed with the rumor that she had a CIA connection. On Meet the Press, Louis Farrakhan suggested she was part of an Israeli plot to bring down the President. And this fall an interviewer for the New York Observer asked her whether she'd had a lesbian affair with Tripp. (For the record: she hasn't. God is merciful...
...Rumor has it that rain has never interrupted a Harvard Commencement.But in 1970, the forces of political activism...
...DATE] December 1994 [RUMOR] Microsoft will buy Vatican City [EFFECT] Answered prayers, joked church