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Another report suggested that Elizabeth Ray named Howe in her revelations of congressional improprieties. Most people who heard that rumor just laughed and referred to Howe's statement several days before his arrest that Utahns need not worry about their congressional delegation as regards the Washington sex scandals. "An elected official's public and private standards should be equally high," Howe had told his constituency reassuringly...
...nothing that Dame Agatha Christie used to be called the mistress of the last-minute switch. For years before her death a year ago at 85, her publishers let it be known that they held two novels "in a vault"-naturally-for posthumous publication. The rumor ran that, not wanting any literary hack to mishandle her characters, Agatha Christie had left books satisfactorily killing off her legendary sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Sure enough, Poirot came to a violent end in Curtain, when it was finally exhumed and published last year...
...report were leaked last April, they referred to an Italian Premier (code-named Antelope Cobbler in various memorandums) who allegedly received payoffs from Lockheed between 1965 and 1969. Speculation about his identity centered on three former Christian Democratic Premiers: Giovanni Leone (now President of Italy), Aldo Moro and Mariano Rumor, all of whom denied any involvement. The allegations remained unsubstantiated. Then last week the Italian leftist weekly L'Espresso published three documents purportedly showing that Lockheed intended to pay $43,000 in bribes to current Premier Giulio Andreotti. The immediate public and press response was suspicion that right-wingers...
Whatever the impetus, the report emphasizes that by and large, desegregation has not been a traumatic experience for the affected communities. It can proceed uneventfully with support from city and school-board leaders, parental participation in the formulation of the plans, and such precautionary measures as a "rumor control center." "You just have to sit and answer call after call from the concerned people," said the supervisor of such a center in Tampa. Of those school districts surveyed, 82% desegregated without serious disruption. The report specifically cites Tampa, Stamford, Minneapolis and Tacoma, Wash., as cities where the desegregation plans worked...
...Chelsea Clinton news before you could reach the floor for a second time. Once given the baton you'd try to run past the crowds, but it took five minutes to get to the floor. There was a great temptation not to return the pass. But two things, the rumor that Washington columnist Barbara Howar had been evicted from the convention for staying out an hour-and-a-half on her floor pass, and the DNC staffers' sheer meanness when they greeted you if you returned even a few minutes late, were strong deterrents. Those with orange passes...