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After breakfast, he strolls out to the wide, flower-fringed lawn for his regular hour of darshan (audience) with the favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed...
...scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon of Her Majesty's Body Guard followed by the Queen's Bodyguard in scarlet Tudor tunics. To a final blast from the silver trumpets, Queen Elizabeth herself entered in gold coat and matching feathered toque...
...Goldfinger stretches half a mile. In Brazil, where From Russia broke all Rio and Sao Paulo records, one unemployed TV actor had only to change his name to Jaime Bonde to be swamped with offers. In Beirut, where Goldfinger outdrew My Fair Lady, even Goldfinger's hat-hurling bodyguard, Oddjob, has become a minor hero...
...John Anderson's Big Sam's Bodyguard, an abstract wooden tetrapod with knobby ends and menacing arms...
...same group of dissident Catholic army officers who engineered the abortive coup d'état of Feb. 19-an upheaval that failed in its main purpose, but ultimately led to the ouster of goateed General Nguyen Khanh. Quat claimed that "rebels" this time had infiltrated his bodyguard and planned to assassinate him. Less believable was the government charge that two Viet Cong battalions were standing in the wings, ready to move into Saigon during the confusion that certainly would have followed...