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...rumor of the day has five Egyptian ships on the way to Beirut to help with the proposed evacuation of the Palestinians. Arafat is asked if he gets seasick. He laughs off the idea as "silly." As for leaving a limited force in Beirut, he says that remains to be discussed with the Lebanese. Would he, under any circumstances, enter into negotiations with Israel...
...rumor was that Catherine had moved off campus after seeing what stiffs Harvard men are. Two-fifteen King's Road, Chelsea, London, after all. We staked out the Union, conducting table-to-table searches. Nothing. She eats only at French restaurants, someone suggested. She escapes from classes by limousine and spends weekends on Corsica, said another. She was murdered on the first day of Freshman Week by a jealous ex-lover. Some yuckster at the Freshman Register slipped in an old photo of Christie Brinkley for laughs. No one ever answered the telephone at 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London...
...West Virginia. There's garbage strewn all over." And the people who are rich, mainly mine operators and speculators, "do not wear their money well." One summer Klingensmith worked on a construction crew building big private homes. Minutes after the plumbing was installed in one, the rumor spread that the toilet seat was made of gold. "They wear diamond rings next to their leisure suits, which are maybe purple or nice green...
...Although rumor has it that he has become a millionaire in his own right (Farkas won't confirm or deny), he didn't exactly start from scratch. Being the son of Robin L. Farkas '54, chairman of the board of Alexander's department stores, didn't hurt either. Apart from any financial assistance in his various business ventures, a "very, very special relationship" with his father has helped to create the mind-set necessary for Farkas' particular version of success...
...rumor had been circulating at Nevada State Prison in Carson City for nearly five years, but no one took it seriously. Finally, the new warden dispatched a special security squad to check it out. Sure enough, there in the prison shop were a three-wheel gocart, a motorcycle engine, a rear rotor blade-in short, more or less everything needed to build a helicopter except the main overhead blade. The criminal masterminds were a welder, a plumber and an electrician serving long sentences in maximum security. Warden George Sumner contends that the plot would never have flown anyway: "If they...