Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military brought him one of his several congressional nicknames: as a friend of the Navy he was early dubbed "the Admiral." For his skill in cloakroom maneuver, he won the admiring handle "the Georgia Swamp Fox," after the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, who harried the British as a guerrilla leader in the Carolinas...
Unquestionably the finest woman photographer of her time, she explored the chill patterned beauty of industrial processes for FORTUNE magazine, contributed to LIFE memorable picture essays on guerrilla warfare in Korea and the tragedy and triumph of India's bloody partition. In the '50s she faced a more personal ordeal when she found that Parkinson's disease was relentlessly robbing her of muscular control. She slowed the progress of her malady with hours of exercises each day for years; the disease has at last been brought under control by brain surgery...
Poor Risk. But in the turbulent years when the Irish rebels fought against Britain's Black and Tans, Sean Lemass grew into a rugged guerrilla fighter in the I.R.A.'s Dublin Brigade. He was jailed by the English four times, escaped once. After the 1921 treaty, by which Britain created the self-governing Irish Free State but retained jurisdiction over the six Protestant counties of Ulster, civil war flared between "pro-treaty" Irishmen and De Valera's followers, who cried that Ireland could not accept partition. Lemass, an officer on De Valera's staff, was captured...
...mutual logic. Last spring Lodge told the President that he wanted to return to public service, specifically that he wanted an ambassadorship.* Lodge, who saw World War II action as deputy chief of staff of the IV Army Corps in Italy, is keenly interested in the ticklish problems of guerrilla warfare against the Communist Viet Cong. In Lodge, the President gets a New Englander who speaks blunt English and fluent French, the language of the South Vietnamese leaders, and can be expected to use both effectively whether smoothing U.S. relations with President Ngo Dinh Diem or prodding Diem...
...jail for opposing Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. He went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile on the Dutch island of Curacao. Eventually he kidnaped the Governor of Curasao, commandeered an American ship, and invaded his homeland...