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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...
...capture. Georgetown, D.C. passed a law forbidding Negroes to read his paper. Garrison was hated in Boston too: he kept harping on the guilt of northern ship owners for transporting the Negroes in the first place. Finally, the free Negroes of Boston organized to protect him; each night a bodyguard, armed with cudgels, trailed him home. Even so, in 1835 he came close to being lynched when a mob dragged him through the Boston streets...
...needs its own external signs and symbols, but what, he asks, shall they be? "What is the symbol of Jesus Christ in a non-feudal world? Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises focus around Christ as a feudal Lord or earthly King and military Leader, requiring a soldierly bodyguard who in blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ of Emmaus...