Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snipers broke the temporary truce. The U.N. was in control, having achieved its "limited objective" as defined by U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball: "Freedom of movement for the peace-keeping forces, without the daily, bloody harassment by local Katanga troops, whipped into excited and irresponsible action by rumor, radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border, and bring him face to face with Adoula. Guaranteed safe passage, Tshombe agreed to fly-in President Eisenhower's old Columbine...
Bushy-browed Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies, 66, seeking his sixth term as leader of the Liberal-Country Party coalition, called hecklers "ratbags," "yahoos,'' "silly goats." In Sydney, one inquisitor referred to a false rumor that Menzies had a weak heart, shouted to the Prime Minister: "How's your heart?" The grinning candidate yelled back: "A lot sounder than your head...
Working Control. The stockholders' report was silent, however, on another development that is not rumor. Although more than 50% of the voting stock in Curtis is widely distributed, a single block of 32% is held by Mrs. Mary Zimbalist, 85, widow of the late, longtime Journal editor, Edward Bok, and now married to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Another block of some 17% is held by the estate of Mrs. Zimbalist's father, the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the former Maine dry-goods clerk who founded the Curtis publishing empire in 1883. (Mrs. Zimbalist is one of seven trustees...
...shake-up that rattled around in Wall Street's rumor mills for days before it became public, one of the nation's industrial giants last week rejiggered its top management. Out as president of the kaleidoscopic Radio Corp. of America went John Lawrence Burns, 53, who took on the $200,000-a-year job under a ten-year contract less than five years ago. A top-drawer management consultant, Burns came to RCA from Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he had been rated an expert on the problems of running big corporations and had included RCA among his clients...
...outside a tiny inner circle knows who are the dominant stockholders in La Générale, but the persistent rumor that the Belgian Royal Family owns a major interest is reinforced by the traditional presence of the royal court's Grand Marshal on the board of auditors. The royal tie dates back to 1822, when King William I of The Netherlands founded the company to finance development projects in his scraggly Belgian province. When Belgium won independence in 1839, La Générale got the country going with loans, and half a century later King...