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Word: filles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early, including one 13-year-old aspiring James Bond. This week a handful of survivors will be selected for training after final tests for IQ, language ability and extemporaneous-speaking talent-presumably on the assumption that spies must sometimes talk their way out of tight places. Most will fill routine assignments at BND headquarters in the Bavarian village of Pullach. But a few will be sent out as "spooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Help Wanted: Spies | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...Ugandan citizenship when the country became independent. The uprising was apparently both tribal and religious in origin. In a nation that is less than 10% Islamic, Big Daddy, a Moslem, gave the choicest spots in his 15,000-man army to semiliterate Moslems from his own Kakwa tribe. To fill other vacancies, he recruited some 2,000 members from the neighboring-and largely Christian-Lugbara tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Threnody for the Rebels | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...With supervisors filling in for striking staffers, United Press International last week was tricked into a textbook journalistic boner. Finding a press release on Senator Edward Kennedy's letterhead in the U.P.I. Senate press-gallery box, Marty Houseman, normally U.P.I.'s bureau manager in Puerto Rico, rapped out a story based on the release's startling contents: Kennedy had told a visiting group of high school students that he was reconsidering his noncommittal stance on the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976. As word of the U.P.I, "exclusive" spread, Kennedy and his office staff were besieged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Critique | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...result, Wonder has become what the trade calls a "monster," a star who can automatically fill any arena or stadium and whose records, both in the stores and on radio, transcend musical categories in their appeal. He has had 20 hit singles and eleven bestselling albums, and now he is a multimillionaire. A month ago at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles, the record industry's equivalent of the annual Oscar presentations, he came close to turning the affair into a one-man show by copping four major awards. The prizes included best pop vocal performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black, Blind and on Top of Pop | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...will have shortstop Ed Durso leading off, followed by LaCivita or outfielder Jimmy Thomas, Hogan, Stoeckel in the cleanup spot, St. Pierre if he's healthy, Geotz, Mackey, Thomas or LaCivita and catcher Dan Williams batting ninth. If St. Pierre does not play, then junior Scott Adzick will probably fill in at right field...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Returns From South 8-3 | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

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