Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white couple lives in Supai; she teaches primary school while he serves as postmaster-doctor-county agent. They are gossiped about but the Havasupai share with them the scrawny produce of front yard gardens...
...phone and calling Prague. "I did it myself last Friday morning. Within an hour and a quarter I was speaking to a front representative who, incidentally, was fluent in English." CBS Radio decided to give it a whirl, spent 24 hours trying to contact a Viet Cong agent in Prague, got one who spoke neither French nor English, finally gave up and asked the professor just who it was he had spoken to. "An interpreter and translator, a very cosmopolitan and sophisticated person," was Lynd's airy reply, "but not an authoritative spokesman...
...looked like the anatomy of a murder after the fracas last month in Manhattan's "21" Club. Director Otto Preminger, 59, got smashed on the pate with a goblet by Literary Agent Irving Lazar during a jocular little chat about who should have the movie rights to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Preminger lost the battle (49 stitches) and the book (sold to Director Richard Brooks for more than $500,000), but now he's feeling better. Just before he stalked into New York City Criminal Court to charge Lazar with felonious assault, Preminger acquired...
...Secret Agent Derek Flint, James Coburn works for an outfit called ZOW1E. He opposes Galaxy, a criminal conspiracy "bigger than Spectre." He carries a pocket lighter with 82 different functions, "83 if you wish to light a cigar," and keeps four mistresses, not counting Galaxy's Gila Golan. Galaxy owns a machine that prepares all five girls to serve as "pleasure units." Viewers who believe that exaggeration equals excellence ought to enjoy Flint's machine-made pleasures immensely...
French Complicity. This month Parisians were being titillated by press interviews with a French ex-convict and freelance barbouze (undercover agent) named Georges Figon, who claimed to have seen Oufkir torture Ben Barka with a curved Moroccan knife at the suburban villa, then leave him to suffocate in his bonds. When Figon's accounts first began to appear in two weekly magazines, Minute and L'Express, the government tried to ignore the affair-just as the Gaullists had done during the December presidential election. Then, last week, the police moved in to arrest Figon, but, they reported...