Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, February 7 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Charles Kuralt and cameramen track the abortive attempt last spring of an eleven-man team, headed by Minnesota Insurance Agent Ralph Plaisted, to become the first surface motorized expedition (riding snowmobiles) to reach the North Pole...
...Whitney, who likes to visit Europe in the fall. Nor are notable numbers of tourists switching from the Alps to the Tetons, or from the music festival in Salzburg to Hemisfair in San Antonio. "We can't put our hands on a single cancellation," says Boston Travel Agent Bruce A. Rogal. Moreover, the State Department reports a 20% increase in passport applications...
...claimed that Escalante had tried to arrange a trip to Moscow with "Russian Journalist" Vadim Lestov-actually, an NKVD agent-"to put forth his opinions" on how the Kremlin could whip Castro into line. In a secret report to Lestov, which ended up in Raúl's hands, Escalante criticized the government and warned that Fidel was planning to expand trade ties with France, thereby lessening Russian leverage...
...park unobtrusively off the road, clock the speed of motorists simply by turning the timer on and off as they go past. Already in use in 14 states and now being evaluated by 33 others, VASCAR, which was invented by Arthur M. Marshall, a Richmond real estate agent and lifelong tinkerer, will soon come out in a more sophisticated form, with a digital computer and readout substituted for the current mechanical computer...
...county police were armed with warrants based on evidence turned up by hippie-clad agents who had been planted on the campus to mingle in Stony Brook's wide-open dormitories. The spies claimed they had taken part in a large LSD party in a dormitory lounge, witnessed many drug sales, mainly of marijuana but also of opium and mescaline. The university's supervision of the dorms was so lax, police charged, that a number of nonstudents seeking kicks had moved right in. Following agent-drawn maps of where suspects lived, surprised raiders barged into one room...