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...last week made clear her intention of leaving a more recent family tradition (her surname) well enough alone. The Queen announced officially "her will and pleasure that she and her children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor." That put at rest the rumor that Prince Charles might become the first of a new line, the Mountbattens, after his father, who took the name Mountbatten from his mother's family, although he himself properly belongs to the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbourg-Glucksbourg...
...Another rumor claimed that student would have to be in the upper quarter of his class to escape the draft, but Selective Service officials denied...
Gottfried Haberler, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, stated that Pu was a "likable boy and a brilliant student." He continued, "It is a shame that he would go back on us after we gave him an education." Haberler said that he had heard a rumor a few years ago that Pu tried to organize the Chinese students into a Communist group, but he (Haberler) could find no proof for the story...
...Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear favela-bred epidemics of disease and crime, but they fear explosions of discontent even more. Now & then, a rumor that favelados are about to descend from the hill in plundering hordes puts fear into carioca hearts. Such rumors floated about during last month's carnival celebrations, souring some of the city's gaiety with a vague dread...
...TIME, March 10). Last week a third U.N. subcommission passed still another bootless plan. This time it was an "international code of ethics" for the press, drafted by a group of newsmen from all over the world-including the Russians. Sample provisions: "[Newsmen] should check all items of information . . . Rumor and unconfirmed news should be identified . . . the reputation of individuals should be respected . . . and comment on their private lives likely to harm their reputation should not be published unless it serves the public interest . . . Only such tasks as are compatible with the integrity and dignity of the profession should...