Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kearns and Goodwin were unavailable for comment in early September, failing to answer phone messages. In Washington, Goodwin's answering service would only say that the couple were "away" and Kearns's answering service in Cambridge said only that she had been "in touch." A spokesman for her agent, Sterling Lord, said the agency had also been trying to reach Kearns for several days. There was no answer at Goodwin's Cape Cod hideaway...
...tissue releases, instructing neighboring tissue to supply the budding tumor with a blood supply. Other pathologic conditions, as well as cancers, depend on the obedience of the victim in setting up an arterial supply to the lesion, or disease focus. What doctors speculate Monsanto is investing in is an agent or antibody that could block the action of the TAF protein. Such a pharmaceutical could be administered systematically upon diagnosis of a primary tumor, and the presence of the anti-TAF might insure that secondary and hidden tumor formations in other parts of the body would never gain the nourishment...
When an FBI agent was subpoenaed recently by the Senate committee investigating domestic spying by federal agencies, he asked his bosses in Washington for guidance. Their response: You're on your own. The agent promptly hired his own attorney, whose fees will be paid partly by contributions that have been offered by other FBI agents...
...more current view of Harvard in American society is that the University is the ultimate agent of upward socio-economic mobility; a perfect meritocracy, it culls the one or two best kids from practically every high school in America. It's competitive and high-key, so much so that even staunch liberals like David Riesman '31 are beginning to have doubts. In his new book Riesman says the meritocratic atmosphere doesn't do much for learning or finding yourself or that sort of thing. Maybe you'll end up a part of the new anti-meritocracy, slide right through Harvard...
...announced that he had bought the right to video-tape a series of exclusive television interviews with Richard Nixon, who has granted no audiences to the press since he left Washington a year ago. The price: reportedly somewhere between $650,000 and $750,000. Though Nixon's literary agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, announced that "Mr. Nixon chose David Frost because of Mr. Frost's unique and wide-ranging experience," it was obvious that the interview rights had simply gone to the highest bidder...