Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friday at about the same time, Ansara has suggested a fitting start to the President's 90 minute tour of Boston. When Scheer arrives, all of the anti-war demonstrators are going to abandon LBJ and surround the Democratic peace-candidate asking if there is any truth to the rumor that he will run for President...
...expulsion of Red China from the international Communist movement? Was it some sort of a summit session on East-West relations or nuclear arms control? Or had they been invited to witness the launching of a giant Russian spacecraft with five to nine cosmonauts aboard? That was the hottest rumor buzzing through Moscow...
...spasmodic flow of the world's news. They have assigned stories, selected pictures, edited and rewritten copy. They have argued the relative news value of a battle-action file from Viet Nam and bloody films of students rioting in Djakarta; they have checked on the latest peace rumor out of Washington, the day's speeches at the U.N. Now, deadline is approaching, and the big problem is whether that World Series game out in Chavez Ravine will end in time for them to carry the score...
Like Brer Rabbit. He left it hanging in the Hill, though, and somehow a tantalizing rumor spread through the art market that there was something up at Christie's. Soon everyone in the trade was haunting the Hill and sniffing the air, each desperately trying to look at the painting without being caught looking at the painting. Indulging in a price-piquing little auction-house charade, Christie's directors twice escorted London's National Gallery director, Sir Philip Hendy, past the painting, slyly watched his reaction. Said one later: "He just sat tight like Brer Rabbit...
...Synagogue, who outraged his fellow Orthodox rabbis by insisting that the Bible was not infallible (TIME, May 22, 1964). Still other feuds have been created by attempts of Reform Jewish temples to join local, Orthodox-dominated synagogue conferences. Contributing to the lack of calm has been the lengthy, rumor-ridden search for a new chief rabbi, who was expected to be stern enough to placate the Cossacks, progressive enough to negotiate with Reform and Liberal Jews, less than 51 years old-and blessed with no trace of a foreign accent...