Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BORN. To Actor Christopher (Superman) Reeve, 27; and his English fiancée Gae Exton, 28, an agent; a son; in London, where Reeve is shooting Superman...
...great tradition, Smiley's People begins with minor violence. An obsolete agent has been shot. His terminal message is broadcast to Smiley, onetime head of the Circus-the British Secret Service. But détente is now the order of the day, and the Circus is anxious to bury both the victim and his story. Ordinarily, the ultimate company man might agree. But behind homicide Smiley detects the ruthless spirit of Karla, his longtime adversary in Moscow. Publicly accepting the injunction of superiors, Smiley decides to do a little freelance investigation. On the scent from London to Germany...
Those conflicting observations give Smiley his dimension and Smiley 's People its distinction. Yet aficionados must view this work with mixed feelings. It is melancholy to realize that a weakly plotted book contains the secret agent's last bow. It is reassuring to know that even now John le Carré, Circus Master, is in Switzerland pondering the next big act for the center ring. - Stefan Kanfer
...claim, because regulations do not allow rent hikes high enough to pay fuel bills. In International Falls, Minn., the coldest town in the Lower 48 and the spot where Sears tests its Diehard batteries, a community energy-education program is well established. "We started out in 1975," says County Agent Don Petman, "when it wasn't even popular to keep warm...
Bachmann dreamed up the assignment for Schilling, a military buff, on his own. The colonel, whose zeal was said by the Swiss to have been "a problem," said that Schilling was an apprentice agent whose prowess he wanted to test in an easy job. The Swiss suspended Bachmann from duty. As for Schilling, the Austrians last week announced that he would be tried on espionage charges. The price he could pay for his spy tryout: three years in prison...