Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reserpine is a "tranquilizing agent" used to calm patients suffering manic disorders, schizoid conditions, alcohol and drug addiction, and chronic psychoses. It has also been found effective in temporaily reducing high blood pressure...
...society late this month on "The Meaning of Geneva." It will be Hiss's first public address since he got out of a federal pen in 1954, after serving three years and eight months of a five-year sentence for perjury about his role as a Red agent in the State Department...
...with a Frenchman. One Christmas in London, a middle-aged American visitor hinted that she was lonely and a company representative insisted on taking her home to share Christmas dinner with his family. Since many U.S. tourists report lost or stolen valuables ot American express rather than police, company agents have to be part sleuth, part psychologist. For example, as a wealthy Houston woman boarded the boat train for Le Havre in Paris last summer, she shrieked that she had lost $60,000 worth of jewels. "Don't worry, lady," an American Express escort reassured her, "You take...
...elevator and rode to the eighth floor, headquarters of the Communist Party's biggest propaganda machine, the Daily Worker (circ. 9,000). At exactly 1 p.m. the four men trooped into the Worker's dingy newsrooms, identified themselves to Office Manager Dorothy Robinson as U.S. Treasury tax agents, and presented a lien of $46,049 for unpaid income taxes in 1951-53 (at the same moment similar liens were presented to the Communist Party-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Said the agent in charge: "Take your belongings and leave...
...moviemakers in 1947 as they cut budgets in fear of TV's inroads. He then signed up for a filmed TV series called My Hero, in which he played the role of a nutty real estate salesman named Beanblossom. The show was so bad that not even an agent would come near him after it was released (although, on the strength of his name. 34 films are still being shown by TV stations across the country...