Word: protegee
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Even if Martinez Sanchez had not attempted suicide-or, as rumor had it, been shot during a scuffle in the presidential palace-his summary dismissal from office would have been dramatic enough. A protege of Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, he fought at their side in the Sierra Maestra...
Partisanship, of course, was involved in these maneuverings. The election was approaching and the Republicans were emphasizing that Baker had been Lyndon Johnson's protege. But when Senator Dirksen proposed a 17-man committee to investigate ethics in the federal government, he precluded any close study of the misuse of...
That presumably will include what to do--or not to do--about seeking the ouster of Burch, 36, a protege of Sen. Barry Goldwater.
"Dear," she asks at one point in a worried little voice, "do you think we're abnormal?" Whatever anybody else may say, Director Donner most emphatically thinks his lovers are normal, magnificently normal. Sex breaks open the ground of their lives and in it plants the seed of love...
∙ PETR EFIMOVICH SHELEST, 56, bald and beaming protege of fellow Ukrainian Podgorny (whom he succeeded as First Secretary of the Ukraine), won delicious revenge with his appointment to the Presidium. In Budapest last April, Shelest was singled out publicly by Khrushchev as the "culprit" who had failed to deliver...