Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost all rookie agents start out in one of the field offices, where the work centers on catching counterfeiters and forgers. (Created in 1865 to stem the tide of bogus "greenbacks," the Service is still an arm of the Treasury.) Some are later selected for the Protection Division, which is responsible for the safety of the President, the Vice President and their families, ex-Presidents and theirs, the Secretary of State and presidential candidates during campaigns. A number of agents with special skills come in especially handy and often have fun to boot?skiing alongside Ford, for example...
...guess I'm not really a very reliable guy," Oliver Wellington Sipple remarked last week. It seemed an odd comment, for it was Sipple who grabbed the arm of Sara Jane Moore as she took a shot at President Ford, perhaps helping to save the President's life. But then Sipple hardly conforms to any stereotype of the all-American hero...
...Angleton was in charge of the mail program. He told the committee that the operation was especially useful because the Soviets did not realize it was going on. Angleton refused to retract a statement he had made earlier in closed session: "It is inconceivable that a secret-intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all the overt orders of Government." Certainly Angleton had not done so. He conceded that it was an error to examine the mail of Nixon or a person of the stature of Church. "But from a counterintelligence point of view," he added...
...portrayal of Churchill and then picked up some of Winnie's other mannerisms as well. "By Potsdam, he stooped a lot," observed the Rumanian-born actor, who attended England's Clifton College. "So I stoop a lot." Ferrer meanwhile discovered that Stalin had a partially crippled left arm, which he held shorter than his right. As Stalin did, so did Ferrer, and the re-creation of the famous 1945 Potsdam photograph was as authentic as Ferrer and his non-crippled arm could make...
...early for him. Manager Alvin Dark usually likes to wait until the seventh or so before summoning the man with the handlebar moustache. But the way the Red Sox were spraying base hits around this classic, old ballyard, Dark felt obliged to go with his best relief arm early...