Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constituency are something new. Henry Kissinger, in his melancholy vein, recently despaired as to whether you can have a truly consistent foreign policy in a democracy. He is sometimes accused of hankering after the good old days of Prince Metternich-one autocrat who can say yes or no; one agent who can speak for the autocrat; no necessity to troop up to Capitol Hill and explain it to six different committees that may then vote against you. But the formation of foreign policy in a wide-open democracy that happens to be a superpower is an art and a relationship...
Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, the recognized bargaining agent for the residents to be displaced if the plant is built, will receive $50,000 from Harvard for the group's staff work and other expenditures incurred while training and orienting tenants for the proposed housing project...
...program "completely unworkable." Agricultural experts in the infested areas seem to agree. "The ants come back every year now," says Halwin Jones, an official in Florida's agriculture department. "It used to be three, four or five years before they'd return." In Lowndes County, Ga., Agent George Kessler reports that farmers this year have begun to abandon pastures to protect their animals from the ants and that "children are having to play inside at some kindergartens to avoid being stung." If the Agriculture Department could concentrate its sprayings, they imply, the ants would not only be controlled...
...THREE YEARS NOW Martin Kilson has expressed the desire to become my agent," Richard Lyon '75 says. The joke is funny partly because Lyon is past the need for the kind of support Harvard can provide--his agent is Leonard Bernstein's sister. At 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night, Harvard will get a taste of Lyon's professionalism when he sits down at the piano in Adams House dining room and begins to play. Backing him will be a 20-piece orchestra and two members of the Kuumba Singers called the Gatson Sisters. The House will be packed, Lyon predicts...
Some residents of Mariner's Cove see the newcomer as an embodiment of the U.S.'s distasteful Indochina policies and would rather he settled elsewhere. Others fear that he may draw crowds of tourists and "disruptive curiosity seekers." According to his real estate agent, the exiled President chose the small community merely because he wants his children to "mix with the kids and become regular Americans." He seems to mean it. At week's end Lon Nol borrowed a neighbor's ladder and put new netting on the driveway basketball hoop that comes with the house...