Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University attorneys, however, last year enforced a five-year University law which prohibited the University from acting as a collecting agent for an undergraduate organization...
Down Three Dark Streets (Edward Small; United Artists), for a change, is one in which the cops are not the robbers. An FBI agent (Kenneth Tobey) is killed while pursuing an inquiry at a private house. Another agent (Broderick Crawford) is assigned to catch the killer. To do that, he has to break all three cases the dead agent was working on: a filling-station murder, a hot-car shove, a small-time extortion caper...
...more Jed indulged his material appetites, the more hush money he had to pay to his social conscience. After he bought a Cadillac, he told a party agent: "I think I am ready now to base my work on scientific socialism." When the Communists blandly agreed to let him have the best of both worlds, Jed gratefully accepted a party card...
Norwich representative. Ives became an insurance agent-and a politician. Backed by a group of local G.O.P. insurgents, he got himself elected to the New York State Legislature. From his freshman term he specialized in problems of labor and industrial relations (he was co-founder and-for 1½years-dean of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell). Offstage he was a convivial Young Turk who enlivened one party convention by parading through a hotel overturning beds and occupants (in 1936 he swore off drinking). After 16 conscientious years in Albany (including terms...
...secret yielded by code No. 3 was a Soviet spy ring linked with many a respected name in army and police circles. Premier Fazlollah Zahedi himself ordered the arrest of his chief of bodyguard as a Soviet agent. Another prize catch: Lieut. Colonel Jamsheed Mobasheri, an artillery officer regarded by his fellow officers as something of a mathematical genius. Upon his arrest, Mobasheri ripped a rusty nail from the wall and tried to open an artery. Mobasheri, it seemed, was the Red agent who developed the three codes. Another Red agent was the officer assigned to clear appointees to sensitive...