Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julius Cecil Holmes, 56, longtime career diplomat and wartime aide to General Dwight Eisenhower, to be U.S. diplomatic agent at Tangier, with the rank of minister. Originally (TIME, Feb. 21), Holmes was scheduled to become Ambassador to Iran, but the nomination was withdrawn because 1) some opposition developed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 2) a physical examination disclosed that he had ulcers. Tangier,-unlike Teheran, does not require Senate confirmation, will be less taxing physically for Diplomat Holmes...
...glad to give an opinion about his Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Despite some feeling among White House aides that Oveta Hobby's handling of the polio vaccine problem has been less than inspired, Ike gave her a clean bill. Secretary Hobby, he said, is "merely the agent of these great scientists and doctors." It was their testing procedures that were in question, he indicated, and it was their decision to hold up vaccine distribution...
Once formally "adopted" by the local party, a candidate is by law required to hire a campaign agent who, for a set fee of $210, assumes responsibility for running the campaign, lining up volunteer workers, and keeping a stern eye on every ha'penny...
...stringent about how much can be spent, and how. The 630 constituencies (five more than last time because of population changes) average about 50,000 registered voters. A candidate in an average rural constituency may spend only $2,450, an urban candidate about $2,150. The agent's fee comes out of this; so do all printing costs (a campaign address, or opening statement, must be printed, enveloped and sent to every voter), headquarters' rent and similar expenses. The candidate himself may spend an additional $280 for expenses-three or four weeks' worth of transportation, meals, hotel...
...Goofed. In Chicago, after a federal agent had spent six months talking bop language to win his confidence before arresting him as a narcotics peddler, Willie Hill, 32, commented: "I'm real down. Here I thought that cat was the coolest. He turned out to be nowhere...