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Even Humphrey's initial opposition to Johnson's successful bid for the Democratic Senate leadership in 1953 failed to disrupt their association. Johnson helped Humphrey onto the Foreign Relations Committee that same year. By 1964, Johnson was confident that his protege was the man "best qualified to assume...
Long before he became Premier, Ky as air force chief had his flyers emulating his style-and loyal to a man. As "warlord of the air," Ky found himself with a power base that inevitably drew him into Saigon's politics. He became a protege of goateed General Nguyen...
Died. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 56, India's top nuclear physicist, a Nehru protege who, after taking over the Indian Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, built with U.S. and other foreign help a capability that by now has put the country within 18 months of having a Bomb (which it...
Meeter & Greater. Mikoyan's succes sor as Soviet chief of state is Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, 62, who rose to power as a protege of Nikita Khrushchev's. A hard-bitten Ukrainian with little experience in foreign affairs, Podgorny's main claim to power in the hierarchy was...
That's the hope as well of Self Defense Forces Director Raizo Matsuno, 48, a lean, grey-haired ex-naval officer and protege of Premier Eisaku Sato. As the man charged with Japan's immediate security decisions, Matsuno would like to upgrade Japanese defense spending from 1.3% of...