Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business starting up, or a spectacular operation by a surgeon or troubles within some church parish . . . They are the news dividends of the week." Bill Johnson, in Dallas, checked back on his last 23 stories, found one originated with a press conference, one tip came from a press agent, seven from newspaper stories and 14 from personal contacts...
...coral reefs which keep building until they stick out of the water." He investigated reports of oil finds in Texas' Spraberry trend for a year before he felt they had built up enough significance to be reported in TIME (Oct. 8). The news break on "Weedhead," the narcotics agent who posed as a high school student (TIME, Dec. 3), "gave us a chance to use in formation on narcotics we'd long been storing up," said Johnson. Once, while he was standing at the top of the University of Texas tower admiring the view, a member...
Witnesses Against. The public examination of Lattimore's record goes back to 1950. After Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy charged that Lattimore was a "top Soviet espionage agent," the Senate Tydings committee held hearings and gave the professor a ringing clearance. But not everyone was convinced that the last word had been said. Since last July, a Senate subcommittee on Internal Security, headed by Nevada's Pat McCarran, had been going over the ground again. Main points in testimony...
Bennett E. Meyers, onetime major general and big-shot purchasing agent for the Air Force, was released from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. After serving 318 days of a one-year sentence for $61,400 income tax evasion, plus 30 days more for failure to pay the $15,000 fine, he signed a pauper's oath and promised to give to the Government, toward payment of the fine, a percentage of any future money he may earn...
...Yanks who ever appeared at Oxford, Howard E. Shuman of Morrison, Ill. seemed just about the Yankiest. The son of a county farm agent, Shuman was a brash, bright 25-year-old, who had earned one B.A. in economics at the University of Illinois and another at Michigan before he got a Rotary International Fellowship to New College, Oxford. Once at Oxford, he seemed determined to set fire to the Thames (which Oxonians know as two branches, the Isis and the Cherwell). One of the first things he did was to join the Oxford Union...