Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance in Flint, Mich. On the other hand, the mood of ugliness was typified by H. Rap Brown, who went to court for bail-term violations and spoke up so harshly during a recess that he was charged with threatening a Negro FBI agent: "We are going to get you, and if you have any children, we will get them...
...George Blake, Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, Britain's postwar years have often seemed to be a nonstop series of spy scandals. None of them ever produced the fascination and national soul-searching, however, that have marked the case of Harold ("Kim") Philby, the Communist double agent who became chief of British counterespionage operations against Russia. After four months of coverage by the British press, Philby's remarkable exploits are now the subject of a debate about the nature and value of the British Establishment, the traditional ruling class in which he was born...
Today Savoretti represents some 50 Italian firms as exclusive agent or in some other capacity. They include Fiat...
...grandfather's old store. Finding little satisfaction in a business no longer owned but still heavily influenced by his family ("You can't get fired that way"), he quit within a year to go into show business. Over the next few years, he was both a theatrical agent (among his clients: ludy Holliday, Frank Sinatra) and producer for such Broad way shows as the Ziegfeld Follies...
...sorts is The Tower of Babel, a spy novel about Middle East tensions in the period just before the Six-Day War; it has no faults except that it is neither tense nor in any way Middle Eastern. The wily Lebanese banker, the fanatic Syrian colonel, the Israeli undercover agent and his trusty Damascan mistress all speak as if their lines had been written for them by-to pick an absurd example-a plonking Australian novelist named Morris West, author of The Shoes of the Fisherman. This is Eric Ambler territory, and no Western writer less accustomed to its rigors...