Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn's estimate there are still about 8,000 East German spies at large in the Federal Republic; nonetheless, the latest arrests are a serious blow to the prestige of Markus ("Mischa") Wolf, 54, East Germany's Deputy Minister of State Security and top spymaster. A slim, urbane man who favors well-tailored suits and expensive cars, Mischa has run East Germany's espionage operations since 1958 with remarkable success. One major reason: his agents easily mix with the more than 3 million Germans from the Communist East who have moved West since World...
...McCarthys. But in her own gentle way. Abigail McCarthy is making a deserved and distinctive name for herself as the most perceptive analyst of the precarious role of women in the male-dominated world of U.S. politics. First in her well-crafted autobiography. Private Faces/Public Places, now in her slim first novel, Abigail McCarthy skillfully details the insecurities and ambiguities that tear at the women behind-or sometimes deftly leading-their public...
Well, rock fans, you needn't get in a dither about it, but Max is right-non-mobile back-beat lovers will find this a summer of pretty slim musical pickings. The best rock around this week is out in the southern hinterlands. Ray Davies and the Kinks will be playing out at the Cape Cod Coliseum on July 2. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $8.50 the day of the show and are available at the Out of Town Newsstand in the Square. Later in the week, Fleetwood Mac will play their various chartbusters at the Providence, R.I., Civic Center...
...football team for the past two years, has not been very successful in trying to break into one of the nation's most elite professions. Only two Harvard graduates have made it in professional football in the recent past, and Kubacki's chances of joining that elite corps look slim at the moment...
Call them seers, diviners, futurists or just plain heads-up smart. The spotters are entrepreneurs of fast mind and slim purse who have, early on, discerned a social trend, a cultural drift or an economic imperative- and made it from noodle to boodle...