Word: confidante
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Chou's clique within the Politburo includes his deputy, Li Hsien-nien, and his old confidant Yeh Chien-ying, 73, a former marshal who was bumped up several places to the No. 4 position behind Mme. Mao. Yeh was with Chou in 1945 when General George C. Marshall was...
Taking these discoveries seriously, we expect to see their complex effects on the boy, and indeed there is at least one: he develops a heart-murmur while away from his mother at scout camp. The sudden illness separates him from an ardently admiring young friend and sends him home to...
McCarthy's most loyal follower on campus is Martin Peretz, acting head of the Committee on Social Studies, and a key 1968 McCarthy financial supporter and political confidant. Peretz is unhappy with the announced and unannounced Democratic candidates because none have proposed a real alternative to Nixon's economic game...
Eat Crow. An organizer for the Ku Klux Klan in the '40s, an affiliation he has since recanted, Byrd, 53, has a less than statesmanlike record in the Senate. There he has consistently sided with Southern conservatives on civil rights issues and is noted for his "industry" rather than...
The New Politicians, predictably, lined up behind Hughes, while Party Chairman Lawrence O'Brien, organized labor, conservatives and, ironically, Southerners, stood foursquare for Mrs. Harris. Hubert Humphrey, whose longtime confidant Max Kampelman is one of Mrs. Harris' law partners, hedged his bets by telling an audience before the...