Word: rumorings
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...rumor mills are grinding out every kind of story among anti-Castro Cuban exiles, pro-Castro students, travelers and diplomats on both sides of the fence. A popular theory has it that Che is - or was - the secret mastermind behind the leftists in the Dominican civil war. The story comes in half a dozen versions: Che has shaved his beard, and is fighting with Caamaño's rebels in downtown Santo Domingo; he was killed a few weeks ago, and his features disfigured so no one could prove that he had been there. Variations have him directing...
...seems to have been a bit fixed," commented British Captain Ron Crayden as Chuang stepped up to the awards platform-world champion for the third time in a row. Rumor had it that a poster of Chuang shaking hands with Mao Tse-tung was already up in Peking...
...Trumball Professor of American History Emeritus, and author of a history of Harvard College, explained Thursday that the legend of the cow privilege derived from a century-old painting of such a creature grazing near Hollis Hall. The Boylston Professor, who was living there at the time, encouraged the rumor that the cow was his special privilege and it became legend...
...statute of limitations for Nazi war criminals with the "thousands of murdered and tens of thousands of abducted" Germans on the Eastern front after World War II, he cried: "The misdeeds of Hitler's myrmidons were committed in concentration camps, which most Germans had only heard of by rumor, while in Czechoslovakia and Serbia, the torture, killing and burning alive of Germans in 1945 was a public amusement...
...third version insists that the freighter docked at Boghaz, the new port built by the Greek Cypriots near Famagusta (TIME, March 26), but was not unloaded because Washington, opposing any escalation of arms in the Cyprus dispute, prevailed upon Athens to put pressure on Makarios. According to this rumor, the mystery vessel returned with its missiles to Alexandria...