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...Bingham's Dandies"-and the other half squeezing the necessary money out of his Irish peasants. CJ James Brudenell. seventh Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade, had paid more than ?40.000 for command of the 9 Light Dragoons. Brave, handsome, bad-tempered and brainless. Lord Cardigan had a particular antipathy :his brother-in-law. Lord Lucan...
...Without waiting for the government to solicit his services, a fierce, black-bearded giant named Shaban Jafari cruised the polling places through the week with his ragged associates-the Society of Gallant Men-to flex his muscles on behalf of Zahedi candidates. Tough, rough Shaban, who is called the "Brainless One," came out of Teheran's slums, was once Iran's national wrestling champion. In the past he put his brawn to work for Mohammed Mossadegh, and in his behalf used to sack opposition newspaper offices. Now professing loyalty to Zahedi, the man who threw out Mossadegh, Brainless...
...busy day Shaban eased his bulk into a café chair and poked at a dish of ice cream. His score for two days was 50 hospitalized, "mostly Communists." "We did better than the police and the soldiers together," Brainless boasted. "I know Shaban is a little rough," said Ardashir Zahedi, U.S.-educated son of the Premier, "but . . . he is against the Communists...
Pajama Flight. Behind a jeep piloted by a wild Kashani follower named Shahban the Brainless, another crowd roared to the house of Mohammed Mossadegh. Shahban the Brainless rammed the jeep through Mossadegh's green iron gates. The Premier of Iran did not wait to see who was knocking. He bounded from his bed and scooted out the back door, to the nearby compound of the U.S. Point Four program. There he caught his breath, then scurried to the Majlis building. The incongruous, pajama-clad frame of the wrinkled Wizard of Persia burst into the middle of the closed session...
...tear-gas shells popped for five hours; when the Tudeh mob finally broke, a police colonel had been killed, eight of the rioters lay dead, and hundreds more were under arrest. While the police looked the other way, Mossadegh's huskies, led by a cheery thug nicknamed "Brainless," methodically sacked two Tudeh newspaper offices, then systematically did the same to seven anti-Communist papers opposed to Mosadegh...