Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Christine Keeler, 23, redheaded call girl, whose 1963 stories of life among London's toffs led to the resignation of her occasional lover, Tory War Minister John Profumo, and the suicide of her protector, Osteopath Stephen Ward; and Engineer James Leathermore, 24; in Reading, England...
...lightweight bulletproof vest and seat protector is being issued to U.S. helicopter pilots. Made of a classified combination of synthetic fibers and metal, weighing half as much as steel, the vest can absorb the full impact of a rifle or pistol bullet, shredding the bullet as it pierces the outer layer of the plating...
Trujillo's favorite titles were "Benefactor of the Fatherland," "Chief Protector of the Working Class," "Genius of Peace." In a grim way, there was something to the brags. He imposed a rare order on his powder-keg country, built efficient hospitals, crisscrossed the country with good roads, built housing projects for his 2,900,000 people, improved the water supply and increased literacy. Business prospered, and so did Trujillo?to the tune of an estimated $800 million fortune. He and his family owned 65% of the country's sugar production, twelve of its 16 sugar mills...
...Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...
...CAMBODIA. One of the greatest kings of early Buddhism was Cambodia's Jayavarman VII, the builder of Angkor Wat. Today leftist Prince Sihanouk, as Cambodia's Chief of State and High Protector of the Buddhist religion, assiduously cultivates the god-king role. Following the Buddhist road of the middle, intones Sihanouk, he means to be halfway between capitalism and Marxism at home and neutralist abroad...