Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women's Wear Daily, which is more authoritative about see-throughs than breakthroughs, came up with the farthest-out rumor of all. The blackout, it said, was caused by the test of a super-secret Pentagon weapon called "Fireball," whose object was to draw all available power from New York, divide it into two beams and shoot it into space. "The point at which the two incredibly powerful beams crossed," the paper explained, "would become a mammoth burst of artificial lightning and would presumably destroy any enemy missiles within range...
...United States than the administration's present policy of secrecy. By deliberately concealing the "facts," President Johnson has undermined his consensus at home, and the image of this country abroad. His passion for unanimity has precluded informed public discussion; his supportors and critics alike are forced to rely on rumor and speculation instead of fact...
Last spring, when Maurine, now 55, confided to close friends that she did not want to run for re-election in 1966, they dissuaded her from announcing the decision, on the grounds that it would make her a lameduck Senator too soon. Last week, after months of rumor, the word in Washington was that Senator Neuberger still intends to become plain Mrs. Solomon next year...
What did it all mean? Police, in the best tight-lipped Scotland Yard tradition, declined to say. Nonetheless, every reporter on the scene was busy trading rumor and theory. Last week an R.A.F. Canberra was called in to take aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
Then, last year, the rumor surfaced again: this time it was President Johnson who was planning to nominate Morrissey. The Globe carefully tracked the hearsay, finally confirmed it in March through a tip from inside Teddy Kennedy's office. Swinging back to its crusade, the Globe was first to announce that Morrissey was being pushed by Teddy, first to announce that the FBI was running a check on him. Editor Winship ordered a concerted effort to uncover every pertinent piece of information available on Morrissey. "This is not a personal vendetta," he explained. "We just think Morrissey...