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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What vitamin will save the world, who is going to be Myra Breckinridge's agent, which Twin has his "brother" in stitches, and which 195-Ib. amateur makes a 280-lb. pro say "ouch"? (See PEOPLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...trip to Hanoi. The obliquely worded message referred to last year's release of prisoners to a delegation headed by Meacham, peace education secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Dellinger, 53, a patriarch of the American peace movement, obtained a plane ticket from a "movement" travel agent and flew to Paris. He talked for three days with Xuan Oanh, North Vietnamese Negotiator Colonel Ha Van Lau and N.L.F. Foreign Minister Madame Nguyen Thi Binh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How the Prisoners Were Released | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...writers. Once, after Kuznetsov had listened to a disillusioned scientist complain about being forced to work out mass-kill formulas on a missile project, the writer found himself summoned to a meeting on a park bench. "It was one of the 'comrades' [secret police]," he says. The agent repeated the conversation and demanded to know why Kuznetsov had not reported it. "I tremble when I write now about that conversation," he confesses. "I was forgiven and allowed to go, but was warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Behind a Desperate Escape | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...involved a secret agency, possibly the CIA. This speculation was supported by the fact that at least three of the Green Berets were intelligence specialists. According to one story, the victim was a Vietnamese spy for the Americans, who had disappeared when he was discovered to be a double agent. No body has been found, and rumor has it that the victim was disposed of at sea. Such a killing would not be unique in Viet Nam, not difficult to disguise. Why the Army chose to publicize the case is another mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Mystery of the Green Berets | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...Medicaid program had paid $169,000 to Dr. Sanford Polansky, of Benton Harbor, for 1968. His case, along with the names of 80 other physicians who had collected more than $25,000 each, were in the records of Michigan Blue Shield, which serves as Medicaid's fiscal agent in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicaid: Modest Fees, Large Returns | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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