Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insurance agent...
Baker arranged a meeting between Jenkins and Reynolds, and Jenkins later talked to Baker several times about the proposed insurance. But then Jenkins "received word from the LBJ Co. that it would not be necessary to pursue the matter further because a local agent in Austin had become interested in selling the policies and that he not only had been an advertiser on the radio and television stations for many years, but also had always related the amount of his advertising to the amount of his business done with the station." This local agent, it turned out, was Huff Baines...
Indignant Denial. Barely was Attassi disposed of when Syria's military tribunal announced another espionage case in the offing. Billed as the master agent was Elie Cohn, an Egyptian Jew who stands accused-with no fewer than 63 accomplices, including 17 women-of spying for Israel. In neighboring Lebanon, Beirut's violently anti-Baath newspaper Al Moharren reported that Cohn had passed himself off as a Syrian expatriate millionaire named Kamel Amin Tabet, and had become a close friend of Baathist President General Amin Hafez by bankrolling his party's activities. Cohn-Tabet became a member...
Freedom from Pain. Recent burn therapy has been so unsatisfactory that Dr. Moyer and Dr. William Monafo were seeking some agent to act as a barrier against the invasion of burned skin by bacteria. Silver nitrate, they knew, would do the job, but in the 5% to 10% concentrations formerly used, it would also burn healthy skin. They wondered whether a weaker solution would work. At 1%, it worked but it still burned skin. Without much hope of success they switched to the greater dilution...
...decision to reject Sohn's plane was reportedly based largely on fears that a cheaper flight would drain passengers from other HSA charters. If a chartering agent cannot present a sufficient number of passengers by a specified date, he can be asked to forfeit a ten per cent deposit. The flight is then canceled, or "aborted...