Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was his complaint, asked the officer. On his way to work that morning, Dr. Pasztor replied, he had been stopped by an AVH agent. The accusation was all too common in an Austria filled with 20,000 uneasy Hungarian refugees; how could he be so sure the man was an AVH agent? "Because I know him," Pasztor answered quietly. "His name is Jozsef Teleki, and he was one of my interrogators during the seven years I was imprisoned by the Communists." In the 1956 revolution, when AVHs were being hanged from lampposts, Teleki had even had the gall...
Next morning Dr. Pasztor again met Agent Teleki on a park bench under the linden trees near Vienna's State Court. Nearby, as Teleki's lookout paced Jozsef Kertesz,. first secretary of the Hungarian legation. On other benches, stolid Viennese burghers dozed in the warm May sun. But when Teleki began talking to his victim, the dozing burghers sprang into action: they were Austrian security police. Teleki was grabbed on his bench; First Secretary Kertesz sprinted for a passing streetcar but was quickly collared and dragged back, weeping...
...hardworking, intelligent government official, who once dreamed that independent India would be "a decent country where decent people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly by as Vasagam led untouchables into temples and restaurants. The next day he also saw that all utensils touched by the untouchables were cast away and broken...
...farming area, Julius Neilsen, Bank of America farm-loan representative, said: "I never saw so many farmers come in ahead of time and pay off their loans." The Iowa Life Insurance Co. reported its sales to farmers through April were up 78% over last year. And, said Red Oak Agent Stanley Fagerland: "When the farmer gets around to buying life insurance, you know he is getting back on his feet...
Woodward, who received this national award from the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society at presentation ceremonies Thursday, has most recently synthesized the tranquilizer "reserpine" and determined the structure of lysergic acid which is thought to be an agent in producing hallucinations...