Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Student Association's position as recruiting agent for guides at this summer's U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow drew both praise and criticism from Student Council members last night. Edward L. Croman '60, president of the Council, said it is "certainly something we'll have to consider" before voting on rejoining the organization...
John T. Daley '61, recently elected Council member from Dudley House, claimed NSA's position as agent is "one factor against them." "I just can't see them meddling in international affairs," he said...
...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
...stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain, is "spending oodles of money all over the country" on Jack's candidacy, "probably has paid representatives in every state." Challenged to name one hired agent, Mrs. Roosevelt answered that "my information came largely from remarks made by people in many places...
Next day Siles turned the magazines over to TIME's La Paz agent, but as the agent lugged them out of the palace he was waylaid by waiting members of the M.N.R. Youth-a Siles-supporting branch of the government's National Revolutionary Movement-and all the magazines were stolen. A day later two La Paz papers ran translations of the story, including the point that the remark was in jest, but the official government newspaper La Nación banner-lined: TIME, THE FINGERNAIL OF IMPERIALISM'S VILE CLAW, OFFENDS BOLIVIA. Next morning 2,000 blue...