Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These were small fry-an improbable bunch to mastermind a plot against the life of the President of France's Fifth Republic. The real responsibility, most Frenchmen suspected, must lie elsewhere. For its part, the S.A.O. haughtily denied complicity. Paris newspaper offices received a crude mimeographed declaration headed, "September 12, Somewhere in France"; it insisted that the attempt was "not ordered by our headquarters for the sole reason that our organization is not in readiness to take power in Metropolitan France." But few doubted that it was the intention of the S.A.O.'s thou sands of bitter extremist...
When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
...Philip set off on a historic tour of Britain's former Indian empire. First stopover was in Cyprus, where no British monarch has set foot since Richard the LionHearted (in 1191). Over an orange squash, the Queen chatted cordially with bush-bearded President Archbishop Makarios, so recently a mastermind of the Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying on to New Delhi, Elizabeth was greeted thunderously by some 1,000,000 Indians who caught their first glimpse of a British ruler since Elizabeth's grandfather, George V, came to India in 1911 soon after his coronation. Somewhat unnecessarily, Prime...
...zeal. To Leander Henry Perez, 68, there are just two kinds of Negroes: "Bad ones are niggers and good ones are darkies." Although he is not a member of the Louisiana legislature. Perez often operates out of a hideaway office in the skyscraper Baton Rouge capitol, has helped mastermind the legislative struggle against school integration. And at arousing the rabble, Perez has few equals. At a recent meeting of the New Orleans Citizens Council, Perez raised the battle cry against the four Negro girls in the city's first integrated schools: "Are you going to wait until Congolese rape...
Minnesota. Jaunty, fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, 49, is a child of the South Dakota dust bowl who cannot forget that New Deal relief programs saved the customers who saved his family's drugstore. Mastermind of Minnesota's potent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, erudite ex-Professor (political science) Humphrey first talked his way to the Senate in 1948. He can be counted on to lead his crusade for true-blue liberalism come recession, prosperity or the millennium...