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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IPCRESS FILE. An insubordinate British secret agent (Michael Caine) stumbles through bureaucratic red tape into some no-nonsense adventures that often seem pointedly anti-Bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...like Hazel, I'd set her hair on fire. I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Smart Money | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

Since I am the agent of the United Ministry responsible in the area of Civil Rights, I am obligated to respond to any reasonable appeal for counsel or support from Harvard people or organizations. In my private capacity as a person and as Presbyterian University Pastor at Harvard I am wholeheartedly in support of ARFEP. I shall work for its program and I invite all who desire to seek peace to join me. Those who might disagree I invite to talk with me. This is the most important issue since the beginning of the civil rights movement. Richard E. Mumma

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ACTION GROUP | 10/9/1965 | See Source »

...IPCRESS FILE. A British secret agent, played by Newcomer Michael Caine, is embroiled in Bond-like situations, though he is not at all the type who would be welcomed in Blade's-even with M. He makes an engaging sleuth nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 8, 1965 | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Divorced. By Joan Bennett, 55, movie siren of the 1930s (Careless Lady): Walter Wanger, 71, veteran film producer (Joan of Arc, Cleopatra), who in 1952 served 15 weeks in jail for jealously shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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