Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome, 1,500,000 persons-half of the capital's population-had been stricken, including Premier Mariano Rumor. In Milan, the disease affected one person in three, including 1,000 streetcar drivers and 330 policemen. City halls and law courts closed down, and pharmacies rationed medicines. In Turin, a third of the municipal employees were absent, and so was the city's entire squadra mobile, the elite police squad normally called out in emergencies. Two-thirds of the 1,000 residents of the tiny Tyrrhenian island of Ventotene were ill, including the only doctor...
...from S-E-X." Said Tiny: "Not even a kiss. I plan to give the Lord the first fruits of my marriage. If only more people followed the ways of St. Paul and King David." No comment from Mrs. Tim-to-be, Vicki Budinger, 17. There was even a rumor that Tim's tresses would be shorn for the event. "I hope they will," said his gray-haired mother, Mrs. Tillie Khaury. "He was such a beautiful baby...
...several months after Richard Nixon took office, the sly rumor went around Washington that, in fact, there were no Republicans in town. They certainly seemed invisible. Nixon himself appeared almost anxious to avoid the capital-weekending at Key Biscayne, summering at San Clemente. To some, his minions seemed scarcely distinguishable from one another, a solid, stolid bloc of Rotarians, Elks, safe Middle-American technicians. "Writing about the Nixon Administration," sighed Humorist Art Buchwald, "is about as exciting as covering the Prudential Life Insurance...
...Rome's 432 churches, prayers were offered "to spare Italy the calamity of divorce." Before an audience of 250 Italian newlyweds, Pope Paul VI declared that legislators should "venerate, honor and defend" the indissolubility of marriage. Premier Mariano Rumor urged his colleagues to make "one last careful meditation." All to no avail. Amid prayer vigils, the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by a 325-to-283 vote, a bill that will permit divorce for the first time in modern Italian history...
...information that Minority Leader Hugh Scott promised to vote for Haynsworth if his vote made the difference; the "leak" was false, designed to force Scott into making it come true. Scott voted nay. Democrat Thomas Dodd was reportedly threatened with indictment over his alleged misuse of campaign funds; rumor had it that he was shown the indictment. But he too voted no. "During my more than seven years in the Senate," said conservative Idaho Republican Len Jordan, "few issues have generated more pressure on my office. Support of the President is urged as if it were a personal matter rather...