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...months before its release, Lawrence of Arabia has already been described as the finest motion picture ever made, although no one has seen it but Producer Spiegel and his bodyguard. O'Toole has been hailed as "a new Olivier," becoming roughly the 29th young actor to be so described. Next spring, he and Richard Burton will begin making the film version of Becket (he is Henry II; Burton is Becket). After that, O'Toole will appear in his own movie production of Waiting for Godot. Columbia Pictures and Alan Jay Lerner want him for the role of Henry...
Chan was assigned to the 136-man "pistol squad" that functioned as i) a bodyguard for visiting dignitaries, and 2) an agency to ferret out counter-revolutionary activity. Within a year, Chan was a party member; by 1951 he was promoted to leadership of the pistol squad and was in charge of security arrangements during Mao Tse-tung's first visit to the city. Says Chan: "Had I known what I know now, I would have shot...
...Paris, the Societé Parisienne de Surveillance, largest of France's private detective agencies, was turning away business, told a prospective client who had been frightened by an S.A.O. threat: "We are up to our eyes in work. We may be able to provide you with a bodyguard in a few weeks' time, but even that is doubtful." The 20,000 men of the Paris police work equally hard, although they have been accused of sympathizing with Salan. There is undoubtedly some S.A.O. infiltration, but the police have recently rounded up enough terrorists to refute the charge...
Phony Money. "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma and his half brother, Red Prince Souphanouvong, arrived from their headquarters in the Plaine des Jarres. Each was accompanied by a bodyguard: Souphanouvong's men in faded green outfits and squashed Red Chinese-style caps; Souvanna's paratroops in camouflage uniforms supplied by the French...
What the hanged men had in common was that they had all supported deposed President Syngman Rhee. Otherwise, their alleged crimes hardly seemed to merit the death penalty: former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was accused of fraud; Rhee's ex-bodyguard Kwak Yung Joo and Gangster Lim Wha Soo, of corruption; Socialist Choi Back Keum, of "antistate activities," and Publisher Cho Yong Soo was charged with "sympathizing" with the views of Communist North Korea...