Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporter had just asked Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller about a rumor that he would soon join arch-conservative Multimillionaire H. L. Hunt in a real estate venture. Aghast at the very idea, Rockefeller recalled an incident at the inauguration last January. As the Governor tells it, when he arrived at the box reserved for the Arkansas delegation, he discovered Hunt had appropriated one of the seats. "I told him I didn't appreciate his sitting there," said Rockefeller. When Hunt refused to move, Rockefeller grasped him by the arm and escorted him out of the box. Said Hunt...
There is a trace of boyishness in Churchill's sandy hair, freckles and blue-eyed charm, but he is neither naive nor gullible. He doggedly pursued both sides of the confused and rumor-fed struggle in Nigeria, checked federal claims in Lagos against observable fact in Biafra. He carefully outlined his own clear conclusions in a long four-part series for the London Times. Churchill had started with the impression that starvation was exaggerated, bombing of civilians a myth and a federal victory imminent. He wound up appalled at the extent of the Ibo people's suffering...
...Bottoms Up" opened on March 3rd to enthusiastic reviews, and will play at the club house in Cambridge through Thursday evening. March 27. Contrary to rumor, tickets remain for every weeknight performance for the remainder of the run, and reservations can be made by calling 491-5846 or at the club's box office at 12 Holyoke street...
...household would make it all the harder for Paul to insist on the importance of priestly celibacy, which he defended against mounting criticism in a 1967 encyclical and has reiterated frequently since. Vatican press officials clamped a tight if belated lid on the story, brusquely denying the rumor that a Roman archbishop might perform the marriage ceremony. But before the week was out, church officials were forced to admit that two years ago, another high-ranking priest, the rector of a Jesuit college in Rome, had similarly been released from his vows by the Pope to marry...
...drove to Washington in the fall of my sophomore year I was scared. we were going to a black kid's house and there was the rumor of riot for the ghetto that day. Besides that, there were constant radio reports that more troops were being readied as more marchers arrived. But when the final confrontation came we had a feeling of power over the situation. Unlike any other relations with my government, I could not see that it was reacting to the force of our group. The march changed nothing, perhaps hurt the cause, but one had a great...