Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 35 minutes after the Secret Service had learned that Reagan had been shot, the White House finally informed the press of the injury. That delay, and others that followed, contributed to a sense of confusion as television networks, breaking off regular programming, struggled to sift fact from rumor...
Reports that Brady had died began spreading in midafternoon. The rumor circulated among law-enforcement agents and on Capitol Hill, where an aide to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker passed it on to reporters. CBS Correspondent Jed Duvall reported the story on the air, with Rather noting that it was not from official sources. Then, after being handed a note, the anchorman said that Brady had died and asked for a moment of silence. A.P. Reporter Maureen Santini asked White House Press Aide David Prosperi if he would find out whether the rumors were true - at just about the same...
Finally, More than three years after he had accepted a teaching position at Harvard. Polish dissident scholar Stanislaw Baranczak arrived in Cambridge this week. Polish authorities last month granted him a passport after having rejected seven previous applications. "There was a rumor they would cancel all the flights," the 34-year-old poet said after arriving here. "Almost to the last minute we weren't sure if everything would go all right," he added. But they did, and Baranczak will likely begin teaching next fall as part of his three-year associate professorship...
...same team, he was always a couple years behind me."...In other Crimson basketball news. McLaughlin said the year's recruiting has been going well, and noted that he and assistant coach TERRY O'CONNOR are looking for a shooting guard to replace graduating senior TOM MANNIX...Rumor has it that long-time Penn hoop coach Bob Weinhauer will leave Penn for the wilds of Georgia Tech. Good luck...
...games, the squad triumphed over a previously unbeaten all-star squad, 12-3, and then dropped a 9-3 decision to the Bailou Rugby club, reputedly the best team in the islands. Highlights of the trip included ROY ROBERTS's esteemed crap-shooting at the Casino. (Incidentally, well-informed rumor has it that every member of the squad lost money at the tables.) Bott reports that Roberts managed to consume 25 lethal-sounding Bahama-Mama cocktails and flirt with every bunay at the Playboy Club. JOHN DORGAN spent the least nights at the team's guest house, preferring to spend...