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...turns out, this particular rumor stemmed from a training exercise of some combat elements from the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Running Down a Rumor | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...being theoretically defended in a counterguerrilla maneuver by two helicopters and 20 air-assault specialists. For the purposes of the drill, the Army gave Dusty Anderson's farm a special designation "Patrolandia." An error in Soldiers, an Army magazine, changed the a to e, and thus an inflammatory rumor was born - and spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Running Down a Rumor | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...news sent shock waves through a Playboy regime already besieged by rumor, innuendo and investigation. Arnstein's death compounded the mystery of alleged hard-drug use among Playboy employees, and among the unceasing flow of celebrity guests through the Chicago mansion and Hefner's newest Xanadu, the 30-room Playboy Mansion West on a 5½-acre estate in Los Angeles. Stories that both pleasure domes have been the scenes of parties mixing occasional kinky sex with drugs inevitably have attracted federal and state narcotic investigators; Hefner, 48, is almost too tempting a target to ignore, so publicized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Clouds Over Bunnyland | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...initiation hazing last fall at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at New Jersey's Monmouth College, William Flowers, 19, was suffocated when a 5-ft.-deep mock grave in which he was lying collapsed. At Georgetown University, a fraternity pledge was hospitalized, according to campus rumor, after he was forced to chug-a-lug glass after glass of "purple Jesus," a potent mix of vodka, rum, grape, orange and lemon juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fraternity Redux | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Dartmouth seemed to lack the fight it has had in its last two appearances at Watson, which earned the Big Green a tie and a win. Only three penalties were called on both sides throughout the first two periods. Rumor says that fourth year Dartmouth coach Grant Standbrook can't fire his team up anymore, and he may be gone after this year...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Roth's Pair Propels Harvard To 4-2 Win Over Dartmouth | 1/16/1975 | See Source »

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