Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Margaret, 33? Meg and Hubby Antony Armstrong-Jones, 33, aren't talking. They're just dancing the evenings away at gala balls and such. But public and papers alike have decided that those adoring looks mean that Meg is, too. Ah well, if they keep repeating the rumor for long enough, sooner or later it will be true...
...reason for the gay of dreamy optimism prevailing at Yale is the widely believed rumor that about half the Harvard team is confined to the Health Center...
...detective-story style, a report on how a rumor grew to the point where it affected high-level decisions...
Wherever Ava goes, however, sparklers burn in many hands. The Mexican press last week printed the fanciful rumor that she was going to marry the assistant director, Emilio Fernandez, known as El Indio. Some seven years ago the Indian was one of the top directors in Mexico; but he shot a producer and was ostracized. "Emilio's only weakness," says Director John Huston, "is his tendency to shoot people he doesn't like...
Cambridge people usually avoid talking about the Charles River; it has a very embarrassing smell. A longstanding rumor says that the odiferous river carries an immense amount of sewage, industrial wastes, and garbage. The rumor is wrong. The engineers at the Massachusetts Public Health laboratories have found that the Charles, even by national standards, is quite clean. In fact, MPH engineers consider the Charles one of the state's cleanest small rivers...