Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such, in the Stygian view of a girl correspondent for the underground newspaper Washington Free Press, was the scene before the Pentagon last week. Another rumor that passed around as quickly as a marijuana joint at a pot party had it that two antiwar marchers had been dragged into the Pentagon and summarily executed...
Contrary to popular rumor, Bobby Kennedy did not urge him personally to come to Harvard: On his say to a speaking engagement last year, the Senator happened to be driving past the field where the team was practicing, and stopped to watch. The St. Francis coach walked over to his car, and mentioned that the team's star was applying to Harvard. "We'd love to have him," Bobby said. But that's all he said, Rich claims...
With its usual combination of chic and cheek, Women's Wear Daily floated the most elegant rumor of the year -that Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, would announce her engagement to Britain's David Ormsby Gore, Lord Harlech, 49, former British Ambassador to the U.S., a 13-year friend of the Kennedys, and a widower since his wife was killed in a car crash last May. His lordship, in Washington at the beginning of a lecture tour, put down the report as having "no foundation," and Jackie denied it through her secretary. At week's end Lord Harlech, house...
...easily involved in the turmoils outside academic seclusion. Colleagues thus mislead were frequently amazed. In the thirties, he worked to bring to this country Jewish scholars, especially psychologists, then living in Nazi Germany. During the war, he was one of the founders of the Boston Herald's "Rumor Clinics," and he began a systematic survey of rumor mongering--ignoring a feeling among some of his colleagues that it was not a fit area for precise professional study...
...boys, one American and one Indian, join forces with an elephant, Maya, for an adventure-filled jaunt through India. Terry Bowen (Jay North, once "Dennis the Menace") arrives in Bombay where reports say his father has been killed by a tiger. As he sets out to prove rumor wrong, Terry is joined by Orphan Boy Raji (Sajid Khan) and his lifelong companion, Maya. Premi...