Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellesley, where delegates from 50 colleges assembled, campus cops shut off the lights in the auditorium just as vociferous Goldwater backers were steamrolling toward victory. Crafty Rockefeller supporters had spread the rumor to police that a riot was in the works, and the convention broke up in the dark without naming a candidate...
...widely thought, before President Kennedy's death, that he had selected Warnecke as the designer of the library, but William Walton, chairman of the Architects and Artists Advisory Committee for the library, Monday night termed this rumor "merely a general assumption of the press...
...affair has cooled off since the torrid days of the late '50's. Yearbook, diploma, graduate schools, course catalogues: these are symbolic gestures: the wedding ring and license. Rumor has it that Radcliffe is pregnant with a Student Union. But areas of the two schools that are still separate-student government, residence, athletics, admissions, guidance, final clubs, and honor societies may very well always be separate...
...rumor was laid to rest when it finally reached Tass General Director Dimitri Goryunov in Moscow, who called it "foolish nonsense." Within 15 minutes, D.P.A. was backtracking: ACHTUNG EDITORS: PLEASE DO NOT USE. Next morning the report made nothing but anticlimactic headlines, such as the London Daily Herald's: KHRUSHCHEV DEAD? NO, HE'S SIPPING VODKA...
...richest copper lodes in history near Timmins, Ont., 350 miles north of Toronto. Test borings so far indicate a find at Timmins of 25 million tons of ore, rich not only in very high-grade copper but in sizable quantities of silver and zinc as well. At the first rumor of the discovery, Texas Gulf stock on the New York Stock Exchange began rising, rocketed 14 points in ten days of trading to 41¼ by week's end. Mining stocks on the Toronto exchange joined in with their biggest speculative orgy since the uranium boom...