Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typification of the TV tot, Video Boy was raised by an electronic baby sitter. The first word he uttered was "Colgate"; the first phrase he learned to read was "The End." When he puts on his raincoat, he becomes a secret agent. When his mother presses him to finish his carrots, he mutters "it's clobberin' time" just like The Thing. When Dad takes over the set to watch football, he and his sister play Dating Game with her dolls. He doesn't climb trees; he watches Tarzan do it. At three, he spends five hours...
Some Satisfaction. Though Sadler departs before he intended to, he can take satisfaction from a 27-year career at American that began as a ramp agent. For one thing, the situation that prompted his earlier resignation has long since been settled. Financial Vice President William J. Hogan, who held about as much power as Sadler and reported to Smith, has retired, leaving the president to run the airline-with Smith's blessing, of course-pretty much in his own way. Beyond that, as a man who worked his way up through sales jobs and has constantly kept passengers...
...trade Debray for Huber Matos, 48, a onetime Castro aide who was convicted of "high treason" in 1959 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. "I admire Matos profoundly," Barrientos said. "He has the same ideas I have. He fought for social reforms, but he refused to be an agent for Moscow...
...involvement as an observer of the Dominican Republic elections of 1965. The unexpected election of conservative Balaguer aroused Leftist cries of a fixed election. The observers, led by Norman Thomas, reported that the elections were reasonably fair. As a consequence Lowenstein is still accused of being a CIA agent. As far as can be determined Lowenstein wasn't offered money from the CIA, nor was any offered the NSA while he was preisdent. Former NSA officials as well as CIA officials insist that the CIA financing of the NSA began after Lowenstein's one year term. Lowenstein denies any connection...
Harry Palmer, the bland antiheroic secret agent of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, the chap who hates his job and doesn't care what kind of dry vermouth they put in his martinis, is back with his spectacles and his non-U English accent in Billion Dollar Brain. So is Michael Caine to play him in yet another thriller by Novelist Len Deighton. But in this third outing the law of diminishing returns has begun catching up with the team...