Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bosses the Red A-bomb project. Elected to the Politburo, 1946. Looks not like a cop but a bald, shrewdeyed, pmce-nezed scholar; is quiet, methodical, enjoys the arts, music; can be convivial or merciless. Married two children lives in a suburban dacha, commutes to work in a black bulletproof Packard that looks like a hearse. An oldtime buddy of Malenkov. Travel beyond the Iron Curtain: none...
Lost Momentum. Less than a month stood last week between him and his deadline. As he stepped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to preside over another midnight sitting of his nine-man military politburo, the onetime jaunty bounce was gone...
...Guatemala City, claiming that he could buy "anything from boots to an atomic bomb." By his accounting, over the las't three years he bought in Italy, Switzerland and Spain, and sold to Guatemala, forty .50-caliber machine guns, six half-tracks, 3,000 pairs of boots, 20 bulletproof vests, and trucks, jeeps, rifles, bazookas and ammunition. He netted some $200,000, tipped barbers at the Palace Hotel $5 for a 75? haircut. But Guatemala, nettled by the Eagle's noisy revelations of their dealings, last week broke off its purchases. Julian, now 55 ("and all bone...
...Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into a Red army colonel's uniform in Moscow and made hay with the Kremlin. Triumphantly back in Bucharest in 1944, she personified Soviet power, drove a bulletproof automobile, enjoyed Bucharest's best food and its fastest growing waistline. She was said to be the only Rumanian Communist who could pick up a phone and talk to Stalin...
...black Mercedes-Benz convertible, long and lethal-looking, pulled to a screeching halt before the Lebanese presidential palace in Beirut. A Lebanon honor guard snapped to attention and a military band blared forth the Syrian national anthem. Security men swarmed about the car. Then, from behind the bulletproof glass of the car door stepped a dapper little man with the look of a morose mouse...