Word: henchman
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...Honor of the Cuban Revolution, and flushed the Cuban embassy's second secretary. Argentine agents have been able on two occasions to intercept and photograph the bags of Havana's diplomatic couriers. Both times they found copies of the celebrated manual for guerrilla warfare written by Castro Henchman Che Guevara. On at least one occasion they found orders for Peronista terrorists...
...President the dictator put a longtime henchman, Joaquín Balaguer. 53, lawyer, diplomat and lately Vice President. With his customary rich sense of irony, Trujillo then paid an official call on Balaguer, which featured a 21-gun salute for Trujillo. But Balaguer's acceptance speech to Congress contained an enigmatic reference to the fact that "a regime now 30 years old . . . cannot disappear overnight...
...Tibbett the Met scheduled rarely performed operas such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and it was Tibbett, a longtime champion of English-language opera, who created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson. To the title role of Louis Gruen-berg's The Emperor Jones he brought an eerie sense of terror, sending his great voice booming among the dwarfish, treelike forms that grew grotesquely on the Met's shadowy stage...
...Castro waxed more frantic against "Yankee imperialists," he grew ever friendlier to Russia. In Moscow, his henchman Antonio Nunez Jimenez presented a Cuban flag to the top Russian of them all, and soon Nikita Khrushchev will visit Cuba. If Castro was not yet enlisted in the Communist camp, he had become too comradely for comfort, in a place just 100 miles off Florida...
...What has New Hampshire got to do with the price of eggs?" snapped a Humphrey henchman after Jack Kennedy's impressive primary victory last week. Said a Stuart Symington lieutenant: "Have any of the oldtimers given up? The professionals have been through this before." Such talk was more and more frequent last week around the Washington campfires of Jack Kennedy's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination. The names of notable unbeatables who had been beaten-Taft, Kefauver, Stassen-were lovingly recalled. There was a lot of big talk about stopping Kennedy in Wisconsin April...