Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested the three--two in St. Louis, one in New York--on charges of conspiring to steal the USS Trepang, based in New London, Ct. Roy B. Klager Jr., an FBI agent, said the FBI discovered the plot when Edward J. Mendenhall and James W. Cosgrove, two of the accused conspirators, contacted an undercover agent seeking funds for training and supplies...
...Torrez, the game fell rather heavily in his lap. The former Yankee, while making millions and winning but 16 in his first season with Boston, was out there attempting to justify his place in the free agent system, attempting to justify his ability to pitch well in the clutch, attempting to beat the best pitcher in baseball. Somehow, all that pressure seemed right...
...think." Husbands and wives are forced into conversation at the breakfast table, though the court system has not yet recorded any resulting alteration in the divorce rate. Office workers are loath to lunch alone, since a solo meal without a newspaper is like a day without sunshine. Says Press Agent Arthur Rubine, who has sought companionship in the Daily Racing Form: "It's no fun to go to the bathroom any more...
...sells the products of his ice cream shops. But authors of forthcoming books are woebegone. Linley Stafford, a publicist whose first book, One Man's Family, will be published by Random House on Oct. 13, has postponed the press party ("How can you have one without a press?" his agent asked). Says Stafford: "If you don't get a New York Times review, you can get lost between the cracks...
Charles Bates, the retired FBI agent who headed the search for Kidnaped Heiress-turned-Outlaw Patty Hearst, on why he has joined the campaign to free her: "Patty got a little tougher sentence than most bank robbers who have long rap sheets...