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Arthur was going to make it - he would be reappointed next day by Jimmy Carter, whispered the first caller. Ring, ring. Another voice. Sorry, it was all off. The President was dropping Burns as chairman. The negative word from the White House would soon be public. Jangle, jangle. New rumor running through the city. In just a few minutes Carter would speak in the Mayflower Hotel to the Business Council, a group of high-powered corporate chiefs, and drop his bombshell: Burns would have another four-year term as Fed chairman. Carter indeed met with the council, but he never...
...train. The Emperor then took an oath to defend the constitution, which he suspended after seizing power in a 1966 coup. At the climactic moment, Bokassa, 56, crowned himself and placed a smaller coronet on the head of the youngest of his three wives, 28-year-old Empress Catherine. (Rumor has it that the Emperor also keeps a blonde Rumanian mistress on the side.) Two-year-old Crown Prince Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dressed in a white naval uniform, yawned occasionally during the ceremony and next day fell fast asleep at a postcoronation parade...
Those who find inner peace listening to Dead music will rush away on this film, for it features the group at its performing best. Rumor has it that the Dead have never given a poor performance, and this film seems to legitimate that claim. Some of the best tunes--"Sugar Magnolia," "Playin' in the Band," "U.S. Blues," and the immortal "One More Saturday Night," are included in the film...
...that the buttocks can henceforth be considered private parts in New York State, and that fanny fondling is indeed sexual abuse. Said the judge: "If the alleged occurrence had in fact taken place in an area where the social mores condone the unconsented touching or pinching of the buttocks (rumor has it that Italy may be such an area), perhaps the defendant's position could be sustained. However, here the touching of a woman's buttocks without her consent is not treated so cavalierly as in some environs." Though the defendant has not yet been sentenced, he faces...
...DECREASING interclass contact is an unhealthy development. First-hand observation of freshmen becomes impossible, so upperclassmen base their views of freshmen on stereotype and rumor. Are freshmen competitive, grade-hungry overachievers, or are they idyllic, innocent waifs who are "testing their wings"? No one can say for sure...