Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first rays of dawn conquered the peaks of the Cascade Range last week, 23 climbers and six guides paused before attempting their final assault on the 14,410-ft. pinnacle of Washington's Mount Rainier. "The view was awesome," recalled Larry Martinson, 39, an insurance agent from Seattle. Then, while the climbers munched candy bars and took photographs some 2,000 ft. above the clouds, the morning stillness was shattered by what is surely the nation's worst mountaineering disaster.* It was only the first of two major accidents that Father's Day, the darkest...
AMID THE death motorcycles, the cross-bow slayings, the killer umbrellas and helicopter spearings in this, the latest chronicle of Her Majesty's most potent secret agent, there is a strange poignancy. Bond films have been appearing regularly for about two decades now, and almost because of the hyperthyroid nature of the adventures, they have increasingly begun to seem like parodies--gimpy versions of the real thing. Roger Moore, the man with the cement face, is getting on in years; and the idea that his homeland, leading candidate as successor to Turkey as the sick man of Europe, could muster...
...submarine fleet. Now, the idea that Britain still has any military secrets worth protecting from the Big Bad Russian Bear seens like the premise to a comedy, not a thriller. Given the pathetic state of British intelligence services--where the big news is when someone is not a double agent for the Russkees--and British industry--where the only thing they make better than anywhere else is Charles and Lady Di memerobilia--and British government--where the loonies of the far right and far left clash in semi-comic fury--the presumption of British omnipotence at the heart...
...Fleming's novel Moonraker, Multimillionaire Hugo Drax built himself a huge rocket to annihilate the city of London. He was foiled in his sinister strategems by James Bond, Agent 007. Now a businessman space buff named Gary Hudson is trying some rather far-out capitalism of his own, with a plan to start putting satellites into orbit from a private launching pad in Texas by 1983. So far, not even the U.S. Government is trying to stop...
...bunch of tony vacation spots (the Dolomites, Corfu, Spain, Albania, Moscow in winter). Once again the fate of the world is threatened by-what is it this time?-a nuclear-sub tracking system that has fallen into enemy hands, and can be saved by one lone agent working for an empire over which the sun set long...