Word: rumors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blotter items. But Smith's arrival at the station house happened to be seen by scores of Negro residents of the red brick Hayes Homes housing development across the street and by other cab drivers as well. Out over the cabbies' crackling VHP radio band went the rumor that white cops had killed a Negro driver. Within minutes, cabs and crowds were converging on the grey stone headquarters of the Fourth Precinct in the heart of Newark's over crowded, overwhelmingly Negro Central Ward. By midnight, the first rocks and bottles were clattering against the station-house...
...American Stock Exchange's 573 members, President Ralph Saul last week bluntly warned that "market conditions indicate a serious level of speculative activity." Calling for "firm sales policies and procedures" to spare the public from hazardous stock purchases, he lectured: "Expectations of quick riches based on hunch or rumor provide an unsound reason for investment decisions." The reason for Saul's concern was a surge of trading at the exchange that pushed both prices and volume to alarming heights...
...sooner had Moroccan Opposition Leader Mehdi ben Barka disappeared during a visit to Paris 20 months ago, than a rumor began to make the rounds that the American C.l.A. was behind the abduction. Even Charles de Gaulle allowed as to how that was probably the case. Then, to the French President's chagrin, it became clear that his own police, acting in cahoots with Moroccan officials and the Parisian underworld, had engineered the whole operation. "A vulgar and minor affair," said De Gaulle in airy dismissal...
...days after the stakeouts began in the rear of Pilgrim stores and parked cars near by, the story made headlines in the Houston papers. Then Police Chief Herman Short claimed he had heard a rumor to the effect that there would be a $1,000 bounty for each hijacker killed. While Mayor Louie Welch said he had "no objection" to the idea of the squads, Short ordered his men not to moonlight for Wilson-though they may still take such part-time jobs as saloon bouncers. "Houston police," Short declared, "do not hire out as executioners for anybody...
About 50 students were gathered in front of the student union when a rumor went through the crowd that a policeman had shot a six-year-old Negro child that day. Someone heaved a watermelon at a police cruiser, and the crowd dispersed to shout the shooting rumor through the campus. It was too late to tell them that the six-year-old was actually a white child wounded by a white boy who was target-shooting...