Word: taker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldfinger technique" involves the insertion of a tiny transistorized receiver in the ear. At the smoking break, one smuggles the questions to a fleetfooted accomplice, waiting in the wings. He researches the answers and dictates them via transmitter to the listening exam-taker...
...Cent. Moscow's balance sheet shows more red than black in its efforts to make political capital out of credit in the Middle East. Not a single recipient of Russian help has gone Communist. Nasser, the biggest taker, periodically pays his political debts with a verbal swipe at the U.S., but in fact is largely playing his own game in the Middle East with Russian marbles. Cairo is caught in a serious financial squeeze that shut down stock exchanges last week, endangers Nasser's ability to pay his ruble debts or his other borrowings. In strife-torn Yemen...
Earlier, the keynote speaker of the convention, state senator Beryl Cohen of Brookline said that the new legislature will not stand for Volpe's "care taker approach" to government. "Volpe will be the beneficiary of welfare programs in spite of himself," he prophesied, adding that the Democratic majority is large enough in each House to overrule the gubernatorial veto...
...nature. Among his recent favorites: J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit and Victor Lasky's J.F.K.: the Man & the Myth. Regularly, every two weeks, he plays with a bridge club, also enjoys an occasional shrewd game of poker. "He is a percentage player, not a chance taker," says a man who has often watched his game...
...service copy makes a useful window to the West. There are A. P. tickers in the Foreign Relations Ministry, the Union of Young Communists, the United Party of the Socialist Revolution and in many other government offices. Prensa Latina, the Castroite wire service that peddles propaganda free to any taker, might go out of business without its A.P. wires; much of what comes in is trimmed to Castro's line and sent right out again...