Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promising stockholders, advertisers and readers a "new era," the Curtis Publishing Co. last week elected Adman Matthew J. Culligan its new president. Within hours, Culligan was issuing snappy bulletins from the executive suite, and Curtis had a brash new tone of voice. After weeks of rumor, Culligan's appointment to the job (TIME. July 6) was no surprise; it came as an unmistakable acknowledgment of Curtis' need for a new and nourishing rapport with Madison Avenue...
...again as an aide read one speech and Khrushchev canceled another address entirely. Clearly, at 68, the top man in the Kremlin is beginning to lose his bounce. He is overweight (5 ft. 5 in., almost 200 lbs.) has high blood pressure and a heart condition. According to one rumor, he is receiving injections of water and procaine (better known by the trade name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman doctor to retard the aging process. He has limited his partygoing, restricted his diet, cut out hard liquor. Nowadays, says Khrushchev, wagging a finger at First Deputy...
...England's royal charter companies operating in Africa. B.S.A. runs no mines, instead collects handsome royalties ($28 million in 1961) from land leases. Under aging (77) Colonel the Lord Robins, a transplanted Philadelphian and onetime Rhodes scholar, B.S.A. has consistently fought rising Kenneth Kaunda and, by general rumor, still shovels money to rival-and less aggressive-African leaders. As a result, according to Rhodesians, "Kaunda has declared war on B.S.A." Although Lord Robins earlier this month announced his retirement as B.S.A.'s president, the war seems certain to continue, and B.S.A. now reinvests only about...
...only by an occasional witty or brilliant examination, and by the opportunity to discuss the answers with his colleagues. The student can't help regarding his grader as a mysterious nonentity who lurks in the corners during lectures and whose mental processes are utterly incomprehensible except for an occasional rumor: "easy," "a bastard," etc. Most graders lack the time to comment on exams, and some courses even refuse to return them on request...
Unpursued Lead. Despite De Gaulle's indignation, Paris was alive with the rumor that a deal had been made in which Salan's silence was the price of clemency. The weekly Canard Enchainé hinted at such a bargain in an issue published 18 hours before the verdict was handed down. In his statement to the court, Salan made the flat charge that in May 1958, when he was military commander in Algeria and led the army's pro-De Gaulle revolt against the Fourth Republic, he was also prepared to conduct a military operation against...