Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turnout. One man held his young son high overhead for a clear view and shouted to the boy: "There he is, the next President of the U.S. I love him. I love him." Kennedy, relaxing with evident self-assurance, joshed the Londoners with effect: "There's a terrible rumor that this is a Republican community. I'm sure it's not true." They liked...
Admiral Erdmann, said his lawyer, is prepared to pay the tax that is due on the whisky. He had never intended to sell the stuff anyway. It was all for his own personal use. Navy rumor had it that the case had been turned over to civilian authorities on the theory that punishment would be stiffer than that handed out by a Navy court martial. Many who had served with The Big E were waiting anxiously for his day in court. Meanwhile, the irreverent U.S. Navy began to call Erdmann Beach by a new name: Smuggler's Cove...
Trouble was that his sickness was catching. Egged on by Lumumba's rantings. unruly Congolese troops went on the warpath against the U.N. all over again. When Lumumba suddenly announced plans to fly to Stanleyville to demonstrate "how peaceful everything there is." a rumor swept the waiting crowd that Belgian paratroops were coming to grab the Premier. At that unfortunate moment, a U.S. Air Force Globemaster roared in to Stanleyville from Toronto, carrying Canadian signal equipment and personnel. Surrounding the plane, the howling mob dragged out the eight American crewmen, beating them with rifle butts and sticks. U.N. Ethiopian...
...their big events, Russians spent hours selecting postcards, Arabs listened to rock-'n'-roll music, and Africans went on shopping sprees for Elvis Presley records. Athletes harried Olympic officials with fake phone calls about the imminent arrival of a gift of crocodiles from Ghana. Someone started the rumor that a British girl athlete was really a boy, thereby brought a flush of righteous royal red to the British press...
Danton Walker, Broadway columnist for the New York Daily News, was neither the first nor the best example of that vaguely journalistic genus, the gossipmonger. In his 23 years of reporting flack-work, rumor, trivia and hearsay, his wit was generally perishable, his essays at political thinking were often bottom drawer (Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista was "the most dynamic and forceful personality I ever interviewed"), his prophecies of events were mercifully forgotten, his items were usually inconsequential, though short enough to be mildly habit forming, like peanuts. But he was less given than his predecessors to malice in print...