Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short days after the Eisenhower Administration came into office, a spike-haired young man named Robert Walter Scott McLeod clattered through the marble corridors of the State Department like a broncobuster. A onetime (1942-49) FBI agent and former administrative assistant to New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, McLeod was brought in to direct the State Department's security "cleanup" program, and he quickly kicked up a dust that never quite settled. Last week the dust blew and the epithets flew anew as President Eisenhower nominated Scott McLeod to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland...
...showed that Norman had been active in a Communist study group at Columbia University in 1938, when he was 28. Later, the record showed, he had held office in the pro-Communist American Friends of the Chinese People; once in 1942 he flashed his diplomatic credentials before an FBI agent to try to rescue some Marxist documents in the possession of a left-wing Japanese professor seized for repatriation. This background became the business of U.S. security agencies when Norman served briefly in 1945 as a counter-intelligence officer on the staff of General MacArthur in Tokyo...
...same tobacco were burned at varying temperatures, and the tars extracted. Tar from the lower-temperature-burning ranges (560° to 720° C.) produced few or no cancers. From 800° to 880° C. the number of cancers increased sharply. Conclusion: evidently, the cancer-causing agent is the result of high-temperature combustion...
Tentative Conclusion. Could the original substance from which the cancer agent is formed be pinned down and removed from the tobacco? Wynder & Co. closed in on a natural waxy substance that is known to coat the tobacco leaf. In the wax are "aliphatic hydrocarbons.'' which, burned at high temperatures, produce "polycyclic hydrocarbons," and these in turn can cause cancer...
...Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto, Calif., finally ended up as a booking agent for a small jazz band in Las Cruces, N. Mex. There he wrote a phony $600 check and landed in jail...