Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Levi's dramatic decision to start a second investigation, with entirely new inspectors, TIME has learned, represented a deliberate and unprecedented decision by the Attorney General to strip his top deputies of their authority over the case. According to some FBI agents, Levi's decision shook up the bureau far more than the recent congressional inquiries into abuses of the FBI'S power. "Look," explained one agent, "the guys who sanctioned that report are the bosses of the FBI. They supervise the investigations, administrations and internal inspections of the bureau-the whole shebang. If they goofed...
...Stang of Washington, D.C., joined when her marriage began breaking up. She likes her Congregational church "for its sense of community and singing, but when it comes to making your own life better, there's no place like the Church of Scientology." Charles Nichols, a North Carolina insurance agent, says he was inspired by former Pro Quarterback John Brodie's testimonial that Scientology healed his throwing arm. Nichols, an active Methodist, thinks that Scientology has enhanced his selfesteem: "It's easier to communicate, to know what...
...nude dancers, and four other competitors followed. They scarcely caused a ripple. One recent night, as "Latasha," 18 and from St. Paul, bumped away in the buff as the Shelter Lounge's "body of the week," Owner Lynn Vale scanned the room and pointed out a local agent for a major life insurance company and the head salesman for a leading farm-equipment manufacturer. "You haven't got any bums in here," said Vale...
...richer clubs. Last December an arbitrator struck down the system and ruled, on cases brought by Pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally (now retired), that the standard baseball contract's one-year renewal clause was just that and nothing more. A player, he held, would become a free agent after playing for his team without a new contract for one year...
...Understood? Then, once this present disorder has been worked through, the owners proposed that all future contracts have a "seven and one" clause that would allow seven-year veterans to demand they be traded or permitted to enter the free-agent pool following the option year. "The nice thing about this," joked Chub Feeney, MacPhail's opposite in the National League, "is that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit...