Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly disaster. The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves. In the confusion the hero is arrested as an enemy agent, but he escapes and deserts. He takes his girl to Switzerland, where they are blissfully happy. Then she dies in childbirth...
...room Havana Hilton Hotel, now abuilding, and New York police have documents showing that Racketeer Anastasia wanted to muscle in on Havana gambling. But if Anastasia had a yen to get control of the Havana Hilton casino, Meyer Lansky was equally set on keeping him out. A Lansky agent, Joseph Silesi, turned up among the 13 groups that went to Hilton Hotels International with bids to run the casino...
...tall, gaunt commander of Venezuela's 20,000-man ground forces, was on his way to the President's reception when secret police arrested him. Grabbed at the same time was Colonel Jesús Maria Castro León, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. An agent of the internal spy net, the Seguridad Nacional, posing as an air force officer, had tabbed Colonel Castro León as leader of the plotting airmen, and General Fuentes head army plotter. The arrests did not unduly alarm President Pérez Jiménez. At the reception, strutting...
...Stalinon Victims"-crippled survivors and relatives of the dead-faced pale, pudgy Pharmacist Feuillet, who was on trial for involuntary homicide. Also at issue in the trial: $5,000,000 in claims for damages. On the witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable pain. When trephination was performed, the brain literally mushroomed...
...Trimmers. Whatever is wrong-or right-with children's books is mainly the responsibility of go-odd editors, only a dozen of whom are men. A literary agent who has worked long in this field says that "with a few possible exceptions, all of them are slightly nuts." Many of the editors are former schoolteachers or former librarians, and there appears to be a bond of rare sympathy between them and such organized groups as the American Library Association. A.L.A. issues a bimonthly list of "approved" children's books for the "guidance" of its 21,000 members. Since...