Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trumpet to assemble such erstwhile Camelot trusties as Salinger, Ted Sorensen, Lawrence O'Brien, Kenneth O'Donnell, Dick Goodwin. Most of the oldtimers are even working without pay, although, as Rose Kennedy has pointed out, money is no object. For a bodyguard, he retained Bill Barry, a former FBI agent who happens to be a New York City bank vice president...
...Little Riddle. At last week's Boston meeting, Tulane University's Dr. Robert G. Heath reviewed 19 years of research on another possible biochemical agent in schizophrenia-a brain protein he calls taraxein. When extracted from human plasma and injected into monkeys, it plummets the animals into a confused, schizophrenia-like condition. The same temporary effects can be induced in human volunteers subjected to taraxein injections...
...moreover, frequently do not believe that women can do a job. Vancouver Insurance Agent Ruth Carothers found, when she was an adjuster, that male customers could not believe that she knew enough about automobiles to do her job. "I would tell them I was the adjuster and they'd ask again for the real adjuster. They just couldn't believe it." Many men, and most women, also do not like the idea of reporting to a female boss. Says John Hancock's Joan Keenan: "It's difficult for a man to accept the idea of reporting...
...typical black nationalist would not today attribute to Christian doctrine his view of the special righteousness accruing to the oppressed and despised Black Man. Yet it is one of the striking ironies of the black nationalist approach to the Black Experience that the Christian doctrine, now considered an historical agent of the Black Man's degradation, actually informed the notion of righteousness now considered a special preserve of Black Men and the Black Experience...
...victors included James Washington Jr., a semi-professional basketball player and social worker who spoke for the City's black community before the city Council last Thursday and last night. Among the casualties on the opposing slate were independent School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton and City Purchasing Agent Charles F. Watson. In Ward 10, Thomas P. O'Neill III, son of the anti-war Congressman, paced his slate to a victory over the incumbents, and a third faction. In Ward 11 City Councillor Thomas Danchy battled against former Mayor Daniel Hayes and Election Commissioner Thomas J. Hartnett. All three...