Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vacillation may one day be no longer possible. Either a rapid step-up or step-down of the war may become necessary, and since the United States is most likely to choose escalation, it will find itself pressured into becoming the agent of ever-widening destruction and killing...
...BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. In her first novel in ten years, Dame Rebecca examines that most unscrupulous of all traitors, the double agent-although she does not add substantially to readers' understanding of the meaning of treason...
...focus of the fun is a hero (Rod Taylor) who is trained to be an 007 but turns out to be an 0. Assigned by The Chief (Trevor Howard) to assassinate an enemy agent, Taylor discovers that he is just too nice a guy to do such dirty work. So he hires a thug to plug his victims, and starts chasing his favorite redhead (Jill St. John) around a pad that looks like the 9th Regiment Armory lined with orange velvet. The Bondoggle ends, however, when the redhead comes up with an angle as well as a wiggle, and from...
Such nonsense is swept away when a seductive, blonde party intellectual shacks up with him and steals his books. Then she forces the two Englishmen to steal them back from a KGB agent's apartment, after which, naturally, P-G and Manning are kidnaped by the secret police and flung into jail. The book winds up with the two freed from prison and jetting home to London. The implication is that Proctor-Gould is now spying for the Russians. But is he really? Frayn doesn't say. The effect is illogical but somehow appropriate, as it is, perhaps...
Housing came first. After a number of successes CORE -- or rather the residents of Baltimore's lower-class Negro community -- turned to the issue of public accommodations. Then to welfare policy. Then to cleaning up the neighborhood. They set up a union that is now a recognized collective bargaining agent for six groups of laborers in the community. CORE organized the union; the union organized the other six groups...