Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while he is at it, he should learn to direct the director. His days are spent in a nerve-shattering series of quick dissolves from the lawyer to the tax man to the agent to the press, and no matter what he looks like on the screen, his very best scenes had better be played at the bank. "The matinee idol of the Eisenhower era," cracked a Hollywood reporter, "is a man in a grey flannel suit...
...renting a bus, truck or boat. Under a system set up by the Aircoach Transport Association, charter groups will no longer have to deal with scattered individual airlines, rarely pay expensive ferrying costs to fly empty planes back from outlying points. Instead, ACTA will act as a general agent for more than 30 nonscheduled lines, be able to pick the nearest available plane and charter it for as little as 2½? per passenger mile...
...secretary is unaccountably mad about him, but he takes to her with the ardor of a man on a diet taking yoghurt. The Eurasian girl he takes to bed turns out to be as mixed up in her political senses as she is in her veins: working as an agent for both the French and the Communists, she is eventually caught and doomed. At novel's end Adam Patch is recalled to Washington, the victim of what Author Shaplen plainly indicts as U.S. failure to pursue its democratic ideals...
...convince the world that America stands for freedom. But it is frightening to think of this mission in the hands of men like Author Shaplen's hero. For Adam Patch is just a fugitive from the WPA era transplanted to Indo-China; any halfway smart Communist agent could sell him the Hanoi bridge...
Enders, a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1954, felt that it would not be possible to immunize people against the common cold, as one would immunize against other virus-caused diseases. He believed, however, that a chemical drug or agent would be found for the treatment of colds...