Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campaigner McKeldin-like D'Alesandro before him-found himself the victim of time's toll and the itch for change. In a dull campaign, pleasant, smiling Harold Grady paraded his past (onetime FBI agent, state's attorney for Baltimore city) and his children (four), vaguely mentioned urban renewal and the city's sagging transit system. But taking office next week, Grady will undergo a sudden, cold-shower lesson in humility. Like every large U.S. city, Baltimore is staggering under booming population, a tax squeeze, demands for more schools, housing and municipal services...
...Agnostic Lekachman warmly supported the right of churches to maintain them, and just as warmly opposed tax aid for them. The public school has "primacy" in a free society, he felt, because it is "an ally of social tolerance, class fluidity, and the open mind." It is the one agent that may postpone choices "until they can become the acts of adults rather than the reflexes of children . . . The public school is too valuable to encourage alternatives to it." With much of this Rabbi Gordis agreed: "One can scarcely expect American society to help underwrite the cost of parochial education...
When the Communists made the 6,000-mile "Long March" from southern Kiangsi to Yenan in 1934-35, Liu Shao-chi remained in Kuomintang territory as a Red agent. Summoned to Yenan in 1942 he began his rise to the top levels of the party reportedly as personal secretary to Mao Tse-tung, and as an expert in "indoctrination methods," meaning brainwashing...
Acting on Turner's instructions two years ago, Agent Bert Kerr bought a highly regarded yearling named Tuleg for $25,000 at Britain's Newmarket sales. Chiefly to provide a traveling companion for Tuleg, Kerr threw in another $6,720 for Tomy Lee, a blaze-faced bay colt whose ancestry indicated he lacked the stamina to win at distances over a mile...
...Recent reports assert that a certain wetting agent now used by wearers of contact lenses in their cleaning and wearing is harmful," Dr. Contratto stated. "Anyone in the University who wears contact lenses is advised to get in touch with his own ophthalmologist or with Health Service doctors as soon as possible...