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...mushroom soup is getting cold over there at the Budapest Restaurant where his bodyguard and manager are waiting for him. "It's probably got a crust of scum and dead baby skin on it"--an aside...

Author: By Rich Weisman, | Title: Oh, Frankie...! | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...most striking fact about that accession was the downfall of Chiang Ch'ing, 61, onetime movie actress and for a decade the fanatical empress of China's art and culture. Arrested with her, by Mao's own bodyguard, Unit 8341 of the People's Liberation Army, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: GREAT PURGE IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Armed Camps. What is secure? It is a troubling question for apartment-building owners, motel operators and universities nervous about being hauled into court to face staggering damage judgments. "I can't believe the law says you have to provide a bodyguard for every female student," says Graham. While the law does not demand turning campuses and buildings into armed camps, landlords are being pressed to become more security conscious. Owners, say the courts, have long been liable to a tenant injured by a negligently maintained elevator; they will now have to pay for exposing people to an "unreasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Price of Rape | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...caterpillars. Although he had arthritis of the spine, he played golf regularly. After another local underworld character was killed recently on the links, Roselli took the precaution of never playing the same course twice in a row. Still, he rejected his lawyer's advice to hire a bodyguard. Asked Johnny Roselli: "Why would they want to kill an old man like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Deep Six for Johnny | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...most colorful and cooperative defendant was Grille, a former Marine sergeant in Viet Nam, who told the tribunal that he had once worked as a bodyguard for a bookmaker ("who probably pays taxes to the Mafia") before his service with the F.N.L.A. in Angola. Grillo willingly propagandized against his adopted country. "The part of American society I come from," he said, "was a monster, full of power seekers and status seekers, with lots of drugs and so on. In New York they have restaurants for dogs while people die in the streets of cold and hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Rough Justice At a Show Trial | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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