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...into his room. "How old are you?" snapped the Red. "Forty-eight," answered the Minister of the Interior, looking up from his meal. "Ah," sighed the Communist, "You made me lose a bet. I just laid down a thousand lire that you were 52 at least." Scelba's bodyguard, who this time had managed to stay by his side and were fully expecting an assassination attempt, sighed with relief, and Scelba took a nap in a chair before an open window, a perfect target for any Red marksman...
...White House faced a labor problem all its own. Because the U.S. Secret Service work week was recently cut from 48 hours to 40, it had to ask last week for 23 more T-men to fill in the extra shifts needed for the presidential bodyguard and other Secret Service chores...
...will leave behind when he goes to Mexico as ambassador. The detective who had chauffeured the mayor's Cadillac was appointed Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, forthwith applied for retirement on the $6,000-a-year pension of a commissioner. O'Dwyer's other driver and his bodyguard, $5,150-a-year detectives, were also appointed deputy police commissioners, entitled to the same melon-sized pensions. As for O'Dwyer's executive secretary, the mayor created a $10,000-a-year...
...Minh presides over the meetings. He used to arrive last, no one knew from where, preceded by secret police and accompanied by a small bodyguard. Cabinet meetings always opened in the same way. First we saluted the Vietminh* flag and observed a minute's silence for our dead. Then he would analyze the international situation...
Christians. Human brawn would be well represented by two outsized wrestlers, and hulking Nightclub Singer Buddy Baer in the role of Ursus, the heroine's bodyguard...