Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take, for example, former Boston Agent John W. Harris, who served for 16 years with the IRS before he became one of some 100 agents indicted for bribery over the past two years. Harris told the subcommittee that in 1963 his unit suspected a Milton, Mass., tavern owner named Bernard McGarry of tax evasion, and that for six weeks IRS men watched McGarry's house with "sniperscopes"-a World War II vintage infra-red telescope that allows an observer to see 175 yds. in the dark, and "snooperscopes," a smaller version with a range of 30 yds. Harris said...
...Spies. It did not take nearly so long to tumble to the idea of rebottling Bond. The most imaginative of the imitators seems likely to be Get Smart (NBC), a spoof of the already spoofish Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring Comic Don Adams as Agent Maxwell Smart (get it?-"Get Smart!"). Blooper-Spy Smart hasn't much cool. When his captor says he does not believe there are six Coast Guard cutters on the way to the rescue, Smart asks: "Would you believe five...
...addition to Agent Smart and the returning U.N.C.L.E., Amos Burke of Burke's Law will quit the police force and become Amos Burke, Secret Agent. I Spy (NBC) will follow a top-seeded tennis amateur and his trainer who are in reality professional spy guys. Honey West (ABC) is a girl, but with Anne Francis in the role she is a fully Bonded sort of private eyeful. James West (no kin to Honey) disguises himself as a moneyed gentleman with his own railroad car, while working secretly for President Ulysses S. Grant. West heads off post-Civil War international...
...those who like their Bond stirred and not unsettlingly shaken, ABC is aiming somewhere between 007 and 77 Sunset Strip. The F.B.I. will serve up ex-77 Sunset Stripper Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as an agent so gosh-darn clean cut that J. Edgar Hoover has grunted his first TV seal of approval...
Jean resists the lecherous counsel of Mama and her sponging stepfather (played with gusto by Raf Vallone) but finds a friend in kindly Arthur Landau (Red Buttons), the actors' agent who in real life raked up most of the muck packed into Shulman's scurrilous bestseller. "You have the body of a woman and the emotions of a child," Landau tells her. Soon Jean's reputation is made by a ruthless producer whose playbuoyant lair features a bedroom equipped with a Roman-size bath, a circular bed, mirrors, and an adjoining jungle paradise with torrential downpours...