Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Significant Contributions." CIA is only one of nine agencies* in the U.S. intelligence community, but it is primus inter pares and the right arm of the National Security Council. Master Spy Allen Dulles not only sketched its functions but also the kind of men the nation needed to attract to such duty. "The agency," he suggested to Congress, "should be directed by a relatively small but elite corps of men with a passion for anonymity and a willingness to stick at that particular...
...than Richard Helms, the man who now heads CIA. Although he has been with the agency since its start, no CIA chief ever came into office with such a passion for anonymity and downright disdain for public acclaim. His predecessors assumed the directorship after long public exposure in Government (Allen Dulles), industry (John McCone), or the military (General Walter Bedell Smith and Admiral William Raborn), with tangible accomplishments and medals to show for it. Richard Helms? He had a 1965 award from the National Civil Service League, the sort given annually to groups of career bureaucrats, for "significant contributions...
What was to be his real career started in 1943, when Navy Lieut. Helms was transferred to the Office of Strategic Services, a switch that took him from desk duty in New York to Washington, Britain and finally Germany, where he worked under Allen Dulles. After his discharge in 1946, he went into the War Department's intelligence unit, then joined CIA when it was founded...
...candidates are enrolled in the experimental New School College, which offers a two-year program in the humanities and social sciences. The students get no grades, pursue no major, but receive plenty of individual attention, and pass or fail on the basis of interdisciplinary final exams. New School Dean Allen Austill selected the college's seven-man faculty on the basis of what subjects students want, since "faculty interests are not only different from but detrimental to students' interests...
...beautiful people." Their initial $500 investment turned into a $3,000 a week bonanza, so last October they opened a Greenwich Village branch. Both shops keep psychedelic hours (2 p.m. to 10 p.m.), sell up to 5,000 packs of cigarette paper a month, count as regular customers Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and by now, say the owners, "we've reached the Madison Avenue crowd." Among their best-selling items: Japanese colored balls, kaleidoscopes, avocado hand cream, Mini Marvels (stamp-size comic books) and diffraction disks-small metallic decorations to be worn on the middle of the forehead...