Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself is its director, Richard McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, controlled, self-effacing professional who holds one of the most delicate and crucial posts in official Washington-and whose name has yet to appear in Who's Who in America. Dick Helms has been, in Washington parlance, a "spook" for nearly 25 years. He is a veteran of some of the agency's most labyrinthine operations-from masterminding double agents working at the very heart of Kremlin intelligence to supervising covert U.S. operations that kept the Congo out of Communist control...
...feathering propeller, the automatic pilot, wing and propeller deicers, and wing flaps for shorter and safer landings. Yet flashes of brilliance and even the visionary decision to put TWA into the overseas trade could not make up for the caprices of Howard Hughes, whom an associate once dubbed "the spook of American capitalism." He abhorred the details of decisions involving money, even his own. Instead, he loved to tinker over the design of interior cabinets or galley layouts while a succession of five TWA presidents in 17 years begged him to make up his mind what planes...
Director Seth Holt predictably but expertly flicks the finger of suspicion from boy to nursemaid and back again, and his choice cast can make even the sillier dialogue sound plausible. Still, Nanny's terrors remain doggedly low key, partly because every audience knows too well that an old spook of Bette's stature seldom leaves her dirty work to anyone else...
...Spook Spaghetti
...Interchange [Oct. 30]. As an everyday commuter along this route, I am gratified to know that I am not the only driver confounded, cantankerous and confused about this ineptness and lack of forethought of highway planning. If the pile-ups at the U-turns continue, it'll be "Spook's Hill" instead of Pook's Hill. In all of this mess of spaghetti, they produced a heck of a meatball...