Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Last Chance. One night after dinner last week, Charlie Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into the other. There he met Charlie Gargotta, a gunman who was his chief "enforcer." Soon they left. Penna got up to go along. "You don't need to. come, Nick," said Binaggio. "We'll be'back in 15 or 20 minutes...
Stalemate. In Chicago, Harry May, legally separated from wife Audrey but still unable to have her evicted from his house, brought home a bodyguard, saw the balance of power redressed the following day when Audrey turned up with a bodyguard...
...Million Thresholds. In the afternoon, President Prasad drove five miles through New Delhi's cheering streets. The magnificent viceregal coach (with crowns removed) was drawn by six horses, and escorted by the mounted viceregal bodyguard, in scarlet tunics and flowing rainbow turbans. In Irwin Stadium, 3,600 picked soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded for Prasad, who unexpectedly saluted as they passed. Said an observer: "This show is more British than the British would ever dare...