Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band's advertisement was entirely inadvertent, of course, and if the University were to place a large supply order with a company in which it hold shares, it would be equally unintentional. Cabot firmly believes it is "much better that the purchasing agent doesn't know where the investments lie." To do otherwise "would be a mistake...
Chevalier is now well known to all security agencies as the man who, in the early days of the A-bomb project, tried to get Oppenheimer to give him details of the atomic program. Chevalier made this effort as a conscious agent of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco. Oppenheimer sternly refused Chevalier's request, but he did not report this significant attempt at Soviet espionage to Army intelligence for at least six months. It was another four months before he would admit to Army intelligence that Chevalier was involved...
Married. Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 37, jut-jawed cinema tough guy (Champion, Detective Story); and Anne Buydens, 31, onetime press-agent in Paris; each for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...landing Australia in another inflationary cycle. Neither party gave much thought to Australia's foreign policy. Said the Sydney Morning Herald in disgust: "Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt and his party are on the same side as the Reds. To his audiences, Menzies quoted a Communist document instructing the comrades "to deliver the main...
...suppose, have mediocre jobs and live in drab houses and have little learning and no appreciation of art." When Senator O'Brien (an "imaginary" character who is responsible for a vicious climate called O'Brienism) goes after Whitehead on trumped-up charges of being a Soviet agent, a lot of recent imaginary history is tediously rewritten. Badgered by O'Brien, his job lost. Whitehead takes off for a Connecticut farm where he bravely exults to diary: "Farming and writing-that will be a life!" Cutting O'Brien down to size may be a worthy...