Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with listening devices and concealed cameras. Haas, who claimed that she had stopped working for the KGB in 1972, told her West German interrogators that she had been recruited by the Russians during a group tour of the Soviet Union in 1969. Her mission for the KGB: to set up a brothel close to the Bonn political and diplomatic scene, and, in the words of the Interior Ministry, "to report on interesting customers and to procure compromising material about them," The price Haas charged for each session of fun and gab was a hefty...
...questions them with interest, reacts spontaneously, laughs easily-then moves away, leaving them with a memory to last a lifetime. The Duke of Edinburgh concentrates on older faces. Prince Charles works the younger set; young ladies all but swoon in his wake...
...beasts, Alexander Pope urged that the three arts of poetry, painting and gardening be united. The first to execute Pope's grand vision successfully was Architect, Painter and Landscape Artist William Kent, who began work on Claremont around 1725. Nature abhors a straight line, maintained Kent, as he set about demolishing walls and ploughing parterres. The result: an elegant wilderness that resembled a painting by Claude Lorraine. Claremont gives the appearance of an untouched landscape complete with grassy knolls and an irregular lake...
...Set the Record Straight, Sirica...
...Living End, Stanley Elkin -Wild Oats, Jacob Epstein NONFICTION: Bay of Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica