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...beneficiary of all this talent is new coach Dave Fish, who succeeds Jack Barnaby. Barnaby was not only the most respected and winningest squash coach of all time, but rumor has it that he invented the game itself. Otherwise, Fish is starting from scratch...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Racquetmen to Defend Title | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

...Rumor had it that the Arena was no place to stage hockey games, but the rumor was wrong, because the Arena is no place to have anything with the exception of reunion parties for the Addams (as in Mortisha and Lerch) family...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Last-Minute Escape | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...into question the validity of test scores as a reliable standard of measurement of "aptitude." For $150, the College Skills Center in New York offers a thirty hour course in vocabulary and reading comprehension and claims to improve students' scores by an average of 50 to 100 points. And rumor has it that for something upwards of $200 you can rent a Harvard Law student to take your law boards for you. ETS itself acknowledges about 2,000 cases of cheating each year--that it knows about...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Warped Standards | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

...allegation that Ford had put political funds in his own pocket had been lodged with the FBI last July by an undisclosed informer. It had hung unfairly over the President's campaign, casting doubt on his reputation for integrity. The informer had passed along the rumor that Ford had illegally used contributions given to two Kent County Republican committees in Michigan by two unions: the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the Seafarers International Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lifting the Cloud Over the President | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...query by Overton of the woman and a nod from her comfirming the rumor planted the seeds of an episode that so far has resulted in prostitution convictions for the Radcliffe woman and a Summer School woman studying dance, the resignation of a Buildings and Grounds supervisor, and several charges against Overton, including taking money from the earnings of a prostitute...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Sex, Cash and Veritas | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

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