Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months the Washington rumor mill has ground out gossip about who might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. when he returns next fall from a two-year tour in the sensitive embassy at Saigon, South Viet Nam. But last week the President's choice took nearly everybody by surprise. The ambassador-designate: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, scion of Massachusetts Republicanism, former G.O.P. Senator who was defeated for reelection in 1952 by aspiring young Democrat John F. Kennedy, sometime Ambassador to the United Nations, 1960 Republican nominee for Vice President, and father of the candidate who lost...
...assuage your fears, the Catalogue does add that "there are other things to be done" than study in summertime Cambridge, and we have heard a similar rumor. But there are indeed "course offerings," and we review here, for your edification, some of the choicer morsels...
...rumor factory, one of the strongest industries among Cuban exiles, got busy. Florida's Democratic Congressman Paul G. Rogers, who claimed "a very reliable" source, put the figure at 3,000 men ashore all told...
After months of rumor, a Labor M.P. challenged the government to deny the rumors of a minister's indiscretions with Christine. Profumo's firm denial of wrongdoing, and a demonstration of support from Prime Minister Macmillan, quashed the story temporarily-until it burst forth again last week. This time Profumo resigned from the government after an abrupt, abject confession that he had previously lied to the Prime Minister, his colleagues and the House of Commons...
After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...