Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between the stops, scheduled and unscheduled, Rosalynn mostly stayed out of sight. But Amy, free for once from the formality of the White House, delightedly engaged four other girls on board in a game of hide-and-seek with her security agent, and picked out Mary Had a Little Lamb on the Delta Queen's calliope. Amy has developed into something of a campaigner; at some stops she worked her own sections of the crowd. One night, when Carter was speaking from the boat to a riverbank audience, several young boys standing knee-deep in the water shouted...
...Banks are often located close to highways and shopping centers, a convenience for robbers as well as customers. Tellers are trained to hand over the money in a holdup to avoid shootings, and even the guards are often instructed not to resist. As a result, notes FBI Special Agent Joseph Ryan, certain banks can be easier to rob than family grocery stores, where mom and pop sometimes fight back...
...were no longer a set of Freudian trampolines for a spry intelligence; the escape from solemnity required a more studied effort. Oddly, Roth's most exciting work of the '70s remains relatively unknown: two long stories first published in American Review. In On the Air, a talent agent named Lippman attempts to book Albert Einstein as radio's first Jewish Answer Man, only to find that the road to Princeton is a gauntlet of murderous anti-Semites. Looking at Kafka began as a critical essay and gracefully unfurled into a fantasy in which Kafka...
...diplomatic drive stressing moderation. Arafat went to Vienna last month for meetings with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Even if the P.L.O. were to recognize Israel's right to exist, however, Jerusalem would not accept the P.L.O. as the legitimate bargaining agent for the Palestinians. Begin, who was released from his hospital bed last week after treatment for a blood clot that has impaired his vision somewhat, is certain to rebel at any U.S. attempt to dignify the P.L.O. and bring it into the West Bank negotiations. Says one senior Israeli Foreign Ministry...
Linda Manz went to school one day three years ago in Manhattan?something she did not always do?and was told that a casting agent named Barbara Claman had put out a call for street kids. Manz, tough and wiry, an alley cat, swaggered into Claman's office and bummed a cigarette; if nothing else came of the interview, she would be one smoke to the good. She remembers that Claman "told me to pretend that I got busted for pickpocketing and that I didn't do it and I was telling the cop about it. So I just...