Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. This long novel about a Russian double agent explores the recesses of the Slavic mind without explaining much about Dame Rebecca's chosen specialty, the meaning of treason...
...motorcade wound slowly through the streets, two brothers, aged 24 and 22, dashed out and dumped two plastic bags full of red and green paint over the windshield and top of the President's limousine. While Australian police hauled the men away, paint-spattered Secret Service Agent Lem Johns, who was unsure of what was happening, shouted to the President's driver, "Go...go...go...!" When the car drew up at Melbourne's Government House, the Johnsons emerged undaunted and undaubed (all the windows had been closed). "Well," cracked Lyndon, "we got a colorful reception...
...trifle cute, perhaps-but irresistible to the inexhaustible supply of secret-agent fans. Lawyer David Baldwin, who owns International Exports, Ltd., with three other attorneys, all in their 30s, plans to make it even more irresistible. Though the discothèque is already drawing capacity crowds, he is selling 250 special memberships at $50 each; with membership come such added advantages as chauffeur service in a yellow 1933 Rolls-Royce limousine, private mailboxes hidden behind a movable wall on the premises, and a key to the back door. To ensure the proper ambiance, Baldwin and his partners are giving away...
...national chain of spy clubs with members identified through individual "passports." Meanwhile, he is hoping that Milwaukee's city fathers will relent and approve one of his favorite gimmicks. It is a telephone booth in the rear of the bar, patterned after the one used by TV Agent Maxwell Smart. When a patron dials the proper digits, the rear wall of the booth slips open onto stairs leading to a secret back door. So far, fearing that bookies might copy the device, the fathers have said nyet...
...United States must also give some indication that, if it ever does get to the negotiations table, it will be a sincere bargainer. And the first step here is to make it clear that the National Liberation Front would be accepted as a major bargaining agent. The constant refusal to do so seems based only on the rhetoric of our own inflexible position -- the rhetoric that insists that this is simply and purely an "aggressive" war from the North...