Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some distant town whose citizens are as ignorant about the crime as possible. A sensible remedy, but increasingly dubious when it comes to notorious "national" crimes. In the age of mass magazines, wire services and network TV, how can any living American avoid hearing, seeing and reading every detail, rumor and opinion...
Knowledge & Rumor. Only Rome appeared to be considering compromise. Publicly, to be sure, it was trying to stay aloof from the quarrel. "We know nothing about the dispute except what we read in the papers," said Monsignor Fausto Vallaine, speaking for the Vatican. At week's end, though, there were rumors that a papal emissary was already in Warsaw to talk about the seminaries. But remembering Gomulka's rude veto of a papal visit during the millennium, few observers thought that the state was about to modify its stand. And no one expected that the rugged old cardinal...
...just interested in sticking a story in the magazine," says Promotion Director Jerry Mander, "but seeing that something comes of it." Many of Ramparts' "bombs" have been lying around undetonated for a long time. The giant conspiracy theory was really a rehash of a pastiche of rumor, coincidence and front-porch speculation assembled by a Midlothian, Texas, newspaper editor (TIME...
...forestall the attempt of other authors to investigate the days surrounding November 22, 1963. The logical, and unfortunate implication of their action is that they are trying to "manage history," much in the same manner Presidents manage news. And the consequences of such behavior can be only more rumor, and dead silence from the only credible sources of information...
...City Editor Leo Hirtl of the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star, the rumor that City Solicitor William McClain was in a jam rated a routine check. Since McClain had been seen around probate court the previous week, Hirtl sent a reporter to chat with court officials. The reporter discovered that McClain had appointed a man named William Jackson to appraise a recently settled estate. Jackson, it turned out, was a pseudonym for Norman S. Payne, a probate court employee who got a fee of $100, although he was not entitled to indulge in such moonlighting...