Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country of ours, where we still have inflation, floods and flies, if not famine, the question arises as to why Mr. Willcox did not stay in Red China where everything is so lovely? Could it be that he returns as a propagandist? And what about registration as a foreign agent...
Barrel of laughs. At the jail on Rakoczy Street in the town of Gyor, policemen wielding hoses persuaded him to admit the sabotage; but it was not enough. He was ordered to name the U.S. agent who had bought him off. He knew of no agent. He was taken to another jail, on Bela Bartok Street, and placed in a barrel-shaped container which rolled around and around like the Barrel of Laughs at a carnival. Hours later he was taken out, spitting blood but still unable to name a guilty American. The Communists strapped him in a chair under...
Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...
...Carlo started off as a D.P. from Smyrna after the Turks overran the city in 1922 and killed his father and other members of his family. Onassis had enough cash to buy passage for Argentina, where immigration restrictions were few. He worked for seven years as a tobacco importing agent, piled up about $180,000; in 1930, with his Greek citizenship restored, he became Greek consul general, at the age of 24, in Buenos Aires. Onassis supervised the comings & goings of Greek grain vessels, soon decided that his future lay in shipping. In the depths of the Depression, when...
...bail now, Harris denies the charge, but a postal agent says that he admits sending a typed card...