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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British sent Cloak & Dagger Agent Fitzroy Maclean (later chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: General Zahedi: After Mossadegh, A Tough Soldier | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Beefy, jovial Howard Simpson, 57, is one of the nation's few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department. He started as a clerk with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up to assistant general passenger agent. He joined B. & O. in 1931 and started grooming for the presidency a year ago. Said Simpson: "I plan no changes just for the sake of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Aug. 31, 1953 | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Plunder of the Sun (Wayne-Fellows; Warner) is an oldtime movie chase story played against a background of ancient Zapotec ruins at Oaxaca, Mexico. A footloose insurance agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Your . . . version of the rioting incidents in Calcutta will, no doubt, help the Indian Communists . . . May I suggest you . . . print . . . unbiased news ... or you may be branded as a yellow-bellied imperialist agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1953 | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...that the spacious quarters at Fort Myer, which Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg had occupied,* were still vacant, and that Van's successor as Air Chief, General Nate Twining, had no plans to move into them. Collins called Ridgway and suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway had his eye on Bradley's Quarters I and wasn't interested. When word of Collins' plot reached him, Twining hastily changed his plans, moved into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Operation Househunt | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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