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...phalanx of reporters that follows the Maine Senator the interesting fact that the Muskie staff had letters from two well-known contributors to liberal causes, saying that each planned to contribute $1000 to both the Muskie and McGovern campaigns. Hearing this, the two philanthropists were outraged and denied the rumor. McGovern himself vehemently denied the claim, and Mankiewicz called the rumor "scandalous." Even Dick Stewart, in Muskie's press room, said that no one in the Muskie office had any knowledge of the letters; at the same time no one on Muskie's staff would either confirm nor deny that...
Anderson's charges and the memo set Washington buzzing with rumor and speculation. It was no secret in the capital that ITT had given $100,000 -through its subsidiary the Sheraton Corp.-to the G.O.P. and was considering giving more. It was also known that the money for the convention had been pledged only eight days before the Justice Department's favorable ruling. At the time, the department's Antitrust Division was under Richard McLaren, an exceptionally tough prosecutor who is now a federal judge in Chicago. The division had been furiously attacking ITT's earlier...
Bits of Hearsay. The mini-panic was caused by a combination of wild rumor and hard economic fact. European speculators have been trading bits of unfounded hearsay that the Italian central bank was secretly selling some of its dollars for gold on the free market and that the U.S. Congress was somehow planning to double the price of gold. More sensible investors were troubled by the huge U.S. budget deficit that Nixon disclosed two weeks ago-which they feared would lead to further dollar-weakening American inflation-and by the gap between Europe's relatively high interest rates...
...fear that you have done a disservice not only to us but also to Harvard and to R.M. Bradley and Co. by presenting as the substance of our statements that which is nothing more than speculation and rumor, and was presented to your reporter as such. We explained our concern that nothing be printed which which could not be substantiated, and were assured that this would be the case. Most exasperating to us are the many inaccuracies, misattributions and serious distortions in the article. The statement, for example, that the police commented on the locks installed since the knifing...
...rumor is correct, the archives will pretty well destroy the Australian notion that the nation's World War II soldiers were a breed of bronzed supermen. During the retreat from Singapore, 300 Aussie soldiers are said to have pushed aside women and children at gunpoint in order to get aboard the liner Empire Star. During the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin, soldiers panicked and fled the city ahead of civilians; one air-force deserter was found 300 miles away...