Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill's entourage, the maid recalled, consisted of a male secretary and a valet-bodyguard. Since Churchill had a bad cold, the valet instructed the maid to get two dozen handkerchiefs, each a yard square and imported from the British Isles. Wrote the colonel's lady: "Churchill was really a demigod to this fellow . . . This cocky detective said that Mr. Churchill had the mind of the century and there was nothing that he did not know or could not understand...
Consolation Prize. The hot-tempered Latins did not take kindly to the defeat or the roughness. While Referee Ellis was rushing out of the stadium with a bodyguard of 20 Swiss police, a Brazilian player, as the Hungarians later told it, came forward to shake a friendly Hungarian hand. The two were still clasping hands when the Brazilian added a neat left to the chops. The Hungarian fell. The Brazilians insisted that it really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight...
...removal of his bodyguard was largely Gouzenko's own responsibility. For the first few years after his escape, the guard worked well; Gouzenko lived in deep seclusion, and the Mounties were able to guarantee his security. Later, when royalties rolled in from a movie and a book about him, Gouzenko tired of the sheltered life. He developed a taste for shopping and for driving around in snappy cars, making it hard for the guards to keep up with...
...Long Live the Revolution!" Worried, Naguib increased his bodyguard. The tide had set against him. Officers began a sit-down strike in barracks; police held a meeting and vowed they would not police Naguib's election; fleet units hoisted anchor and sailed from Alexandria, announcing that they would not return unless the R.C.C. agreed to stay in power. Mobs roamed the streets calling: "Long live the revolution!" The man they shouted for: Colonel Abdel Nasser...
...Lean On. In the midst of it all, Naguib, escorted by his bodyguard, drove to Cairo's airport to perform a routine ceremonial function: a goodbye to King Saud of Saudi Arabia, who last week made a royal visit to Cairo. Suddenly Naguib clutched at his heart and fell to the floor, unconscious. When he revived, bystanders reported that he whispered: "I want to die." Later, the man who helped the tottering Naguib was Colonel Abdel Nasser. They walked to his car together, Naguib leaning heavily on Nasser's arm. For the time being, Colonel Nasser was again...