Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter steps from White House elevator No. 1 onto the ground floor of the mansion and smiles. He asks a Secret Service agent standing in the marbled West Hall about a relative's health. "She's better, Mr. President, thanks," the agent answers. It is 6:45 a.m., the time Carter normally begins his day. He concludes his brief conversation and walks briskly outdoors toward the West Wing, along the colonnade bordering the Rose Garden. He throws open the tall glass door to the Oval Office, strides through that exquisite, historic room and heads directly...
...several weeks ago-has ignited bitter feuds. Says Gloria Spann, Carter's sister: "Plains used to be just like a family. But it's split now. Families are split. The church is split." Two weeks ago, Billy Carter nearly came to blows with a local real estate agent during a rezoning hearing. Says Mrs. Wiggins: "Sure, people are getting greedy. But what really upsets me is that one or two families who have already made a lot of money are trying to keep everyone else from getting...
...Hypnotic Agent. According to the complaint filed by the mother, Polanski persuaded the girl to drink several glasses of champagne and then take part of a Quaalude tablet, a sedative and hypnotic agent (the drug is often used by professional pornographers to tranquilize young subjects). The couple, after some nude Jacuzzi bathing, allegedly retired to a bedroom where, despite the girl's protests, Polanski forced her to have sexual relations with him. The girl never told her mother, who learned of the story later through an overheard phone call...
Father was Leland Hayward, the best theatrical and movie agent in the business and later the successful producer of such hits as South Pacific and Call Me Madam. Worshiped by his children and idolized by his five wives, he exuded vitality; he was incomplete without a telephone in his hand, making a million-dollar deal or selling a Garbo, a Fonda, or a Hemingway. Mother was Margaret Sullavan, the husky-voiced star of the 30s and '40s. Though she was not a classic beauty, men found her bewitching: "The fairest of sights in twinkling lights is Sullavan with...
...March 5 issue of Izvestia accused Anatoly Sharansky of being a CIA agent. Following this, Soviet authorities arrested Sharansky...