Word: rumors
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...already two acquisitions valued at more than $2.5 billion, bulking up the company's medical and automation businesses. A 19-year Siemens veteran, including three years running its U.S. operations, Kleinfeld is known for his cross-cultural savvy--a true next-generation European CEO. The rumor mill is spinning that his next deal could be with a cell-phone handsetmaker to fill the one gap in Siemens' communications portfolio. By Coco Masters
...press conference, we learned more about the funeral arrangements and the burial. There had been some speculation before yesterday's announcement that he is to be interred in the crypt, that his body would be brought back to Poland. But that proved unfounded. The rumor was another reminder that this man seemed to have two sides. He was a devoted patriot of his native Poland, but at the same time a supremely Roman pontiff, who saw himself as the rightful successor of Peter. He was a firm believer in tradition, but infinitely curious about other cultures. Ultimately, John Paul...
...days later the onetime scourge of other poets slashed his left wrist. He recovered and picked up his normal life. Within a few months, while walking along a North Carolina highway shortly after dusk, he was sideswiped and killed by a car. The official verdict was accidental death; the rumor of suicide arose and persisted. No one will ever know what was on Jarrell's mind during his last moments, but the mature products of a remarkable intelligence are now splendidly available. --By Paul Gray
...reports that his seat might soon be vacant, he said with a twinkle, "I can't know, of course, what the good Lord may have in mind for me. But I can say that insofar as the suggestions contemplate my voluntary departure, like Mark Twain's reported death, the rumor is grossly exaggerated." After restoring himself on a European tour this summer, which included a stop in England last week to help rededicate the Magna Carta, Brennan expects to be back in his regular seat at the court on the first Monday in October, ready for new battles with...
...rumors, fed by his wan and wasted appearance, had circulated for days. Rock Hudson, it was said, was suffering from liver cancer and slipping in and out of a coma at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly. Reality was more shocking than rumor. At the hospital last week, a spokeswoman for the actor bluntly announced, "Mr. Rock Hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome...