Word: bodyguarding
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...sooner had Erhard disposed of the Kruger affair than another ex-Nazi popped up. Arrested on charges of participating in the mass murder of Jews in southern Russia was West Germany's top bodyguard, U.S.-trained Ewald Peters, who heads the federal government's criminal security police. Peters' job was to protect both West German and visiting statesmen, and he was rated as excellent on both scores. U.S. Secret Service men found him highly effective during President Kennedy's visit to West Germany last summer, and had seen him in action again last month during Erhard...
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...Major General Tran Van Don, chief of the general staff and technically in charge of administering the country under martial law. Actually he commands only a bodyguard of 50 troops, and at the moment is considered a figurehead...
...Civil War days, citizens wandered freely through the first-floor rooms, snipping swatches from the upholstery as souvenirs. On the eve of Lincoln's second inauguration, his bodyguard observed that the public parlors looked "as if a regiment of rebel troops had been quartered there-with permission to forage." Ulysses S. Grant redecorated in garish Mississippi Riverboat Victorian, with a great profusion of potted palms and gaslight globes...
...Fame. Always on the lookout for girls for his personal use, Rachman frequently visited the several night clubs he owned, and would sit in a corner like a satanic kewpie, a cigar in his mouth, diamonds on his pudgy fingers, a blonde juvenile obediently at his side, and a bodyguard in the background. Christine Keeler was one of his many mistresses, and in October 1960, he set up Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine's sometime roommate, in a West End apartment complete with a two-way bedroom mirror and a tape recorder beneath the bed. "In our two happy years...