Word: proteg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the same pool, he clocked 18:20.2 for 1,500 meters to win the A.A.U. title. The slower time was intentional-Breen kept on going until he had finished a full mile in the water, finished in 19:40.4, a new world record. Another Counsilman protegé, Frankie Brunnell, 17, of Philadelphia's Vesper Swim Club, finished second in the 1,500-meter with a commendable 19:38.2. Later in the week, Breen won another title with a fast 4:30.1 in the 440-just two seconds slower than the world record...
...victims (Beria's protegés) were "innocent workers" falsely accused by "adventurists" who "cooked up repulsive materials ... to do harm to the Communist Party." The chief adventurist was one I. A. Rukhadze, former Minister of [Georgian] State Security, and, according to Radio Tiflis, "an enemy of the people . . . with inimical careerist interests." "By all kinds of intrigues," the announcement went on, Rukhadze "tried to arouse a feeling of national enmity" between Georgians and Great Russians. He was aided by A. I. Mgeladze, boss of the Georgian Communist Party, and Premier Z. Ketskhoveli-the men whom Stalin promoted only...
Beyond the Pale. The nations of Western Europe, led by France and Britain, find it hard to forget that Dictator Francisco Franco was the protegé of Hitler and Mussolini; they have put him and his army beyond the pale of their defensive alliance. But lately Atlantic pact strategists have been thinking hard about the Spanish army. If the Communists marched across Europe, Franco's men would be needed to fight from the Pyrenees to Gibraltar for the Continent's strategic southwest corner...