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...fake a story from, say, the White House. Indeed, the fabrications of Cooke, Daly and Jones were quickly exposed, partly as a result of probing questions from other news organizations. Cooke and Daly were fired, and Jones was dropped from the Times's freelance roster. But the spate of trickery underscored a fundamental vulnerability...
Beyond challenges to the Commission's work, a spate of actual conspiracy theories have emerged. Mark Lane's second book on the assassination, though published as fiction, was Executive Action, suggesting very strongly that Oswald was used as a patsy for Dallas right-wing elements. An old theory suggests a link between Oswald, his killer Jack Ruby, and murdered Dallas officer Tippit. Evidence for this theory is almost exclusively circumstantial. Oswald's landlady said a police car drove by Oswald's rooming house, honked the horn, and drove away. This was five or six minutes before the time that Tippit...
...when you get down to it, this Yale football team is just plain bad. It's true that things wouldn't be so tough without the spate of injuries the Bulldogs have suffered, but the way Yale has lost certain games says a lot about the quality of the team...
...myriad little slips, whether noticed or not, already have Helene at the brink of panic when she receives a spate of anonymous letters, followed by the ex-boyfriend, oozing as much sleaze per celluloid inch as any villain in film history...
...competitive attire, while Levi Strauss, the U.S. Olympic team's overall clothing sponsor, will provide the track and field athletes with such items as presentation suits to be worn on the victory stand. The arrangement, says Vitale, has already paid dividends in the form of a spate of new licensing contracts. One of the largest so far, from Phenix of Japan, is worth a minimum of $3.5 million to the Italian company...