Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favored his friends and relatives on the rescue train. Everyone acts to save his loved ones first. He who denies this is a hypocrite." Defense Attorney Tamir saw it differently. "You began as an ambitious leader," he shouted at Kastner, "and ended up as a Nazi agent...
...advance royalties of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they set off on a mad fling that was to span the decade, cover a couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual orgies of the time, but he also kept...
...decision was made in the case of Polish-born U.S. Citizen Max Shachtman, 51, onetime friend and agent of Leon Trotsky, national chairman of a U.S. leftist faction: the anticapitalist, anti-Soviet Independent Socialist League. In 1953 Shachtman applied for a passport in order to get material for articles and lectures. During months of tilting with the State Department, he was granted an interview, refused a formal hearing before the Board of Passport Appeals and refused the passport itself. Reason: his league was on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations. When a U.S. District Court dismissed...
...What the Russians need," a CBS press-agent added, "is a pressagent...
...P.H.S.'s top men were not entirely satisfied with formaldehyde as the killing agent: ironically, it may actually favor the clumping of virus particles that makes a vaccine unsafe. And they had little patience with the Mahoney strain (which has caused most of the polio in the Cutter-vaccinated cases).* Denmark, they noted, has inoculated its 400,000 schoolchildren with a Salk-type vaccine, but with the Brunhilde strain substituted for Mahoney, and with no mishap. And since the U.S. authorities were not satisfied with present testing methods, it was clear that major changes in the Salk vaccine were...