Word: traveled
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...seen its empire shrink in rancor, and its secret service embarrassed by the Burgess-Maclean and Profumo scandals, the notion of a British agent saving the free world was a tonic made in Fantasyland. The Beatles might have made Britain swinging for the young, but Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs (including Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die) on the pop charts. But their signal influence was closer to home. In the '60s, Bond spawned a whole genre of superspy imitators: Matt Helm and Harry Palmer...
...opposed the arms-for-hostages scheme, he said, the traditional rivalry between State and the NSC turned downright nasty, exacerbated by the hard-right conservatives who had never had much use for the Secretary of State. According to Shultz, one presidential assistant, Jonathan Miller, even took to nixing his travel plans; the Secretary was forced to lodge a personal complaint with the President. (Miller insists such travel decisions were made by Chief of Staff Don Regan...
...State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan put the resignation in his desk and told Shultz, "Let's talk about it after you get back from vacation." The matter was dropped...
...part of the divorce settlement, Holm expected about a million dollars, along with $80,000 a month in temporary support, including $16,500 for rent, $12,000 for clothing and accessories, $6,000 for entertainment, $7,000 for household help and $4,000 for travel. "Peter just broke down what they spent in the marriage, $160,000 a month, and divided it in two," explained Holm's lawyer, Frank Steinschriber. "They lived a lifestyle you'd expect Joan Collins to have...
Returning apparently fresh from his overseas travel this year, President Bok has renewed his call for a more "international" Harvard. He wants to bring more foreign students here and send more undergraduates over there, maybe laying the groundwork for the day, long after the end of "the Bok regime," when Harvard will have overseas campuses. But the arguments Bok has put forth so far to defend such moves are not convincing...