Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Village for color picture possibilities, Andrea Svedberg had her arms ornamented hippie style with Day-Glo paints. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding was gauche enough to wear a suit and tie to a celebration in Golden Gate Park, and was suspected of being a "narco" (narcotics agent). Malcolm Carter, TIME'S Stanford University stringer, did much better with a second-hand kelly-green flannel shirt and a string of Philippine seed beads. Washington Correspondent Philip Mandelkorn managed to get by in ordinary sports clothes, but he found reporting difficult. Entering a hippie guru...
...many attempts to seize or destroy the papers. One of their most spectacular--and successful--sallies occurred in November, 1936. At that time Trotsky was under house arrest in Norway, but many of the papers were hidden in a Paris apartment, supposedly out of the reach of Stalin. Nevertheless, agents of the G.P.U. (Russia's secret police at that time) located the apartment, perhaps with the aid of an agent provacateur, and they occupied the adjacent room. Then, with a torch, they cut through the intervening wall and made off with the papers...
...discussions was how to determine which union actually represents B&G workers. The two unions attending the meeting, plus the small group of B&G workers seeking to be called the "Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association," all claim the right to be recognized as the workers' bargaining agent...
...merge with the Council. The small group of B&G workers (perhaps two dozen) seeking to retain the old name allegedly claims that this was not so. The Building Services Employees International, on the basis of some cards signed by B&G workers, claims that it is the bargaining agent...
...Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, which actually has the sympathies of most of the B&G workers, feared that Harvard would not abide by he results of a state election. It argued that Harvard should recognize it as the bargaining agent on the basis of the December, 1966 vote...