Word: second-in-command
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...dogmatic leftists in the party, this was heresy, a betrayal of socialist principles; only a single commanding speech by Labor's fiery second-in-command, Aneurin Bevan, standing by his leader, kept the party conference from falling apart in November. Nye Bevan, after a major abdominal operation, is down to a scant 140 Ibs., and living in seclusion on his Buckinghamshire farm. With Nye out of action, socialist left-wingers rose in open revolt, and the party leadership split in warring factions. Instead of stumping the country like Gladstone to stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy...
...lining Major Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second-in-command at La Cabana Fortress, Major Benjamin Camino, an open antiCommunist, was recently arrested for "conspiracy...
...legendary Flying Tigers, then commanded Chennault's fighter forces in what must have been one of the most gallant and frustrating wars ever fought. Flying Tiger an angry book, is almost as important for what it tells of its villains as it is for the love it accords to its hero. Yet, ironically, its villains cannot be thought of as bad men, only as fallible and shortsighted ones: Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, Chennault's theater commander, and General Clayton Bissell, Stilwell's second-in-command...
Iron-grey, burly and vigorous at 62, Larry Gould speaks of penguins-Mrs. Gould and he share their home with a stuffed one-Sputniks and education with more authority than most. A topflight geologist and geographer, he was second-in-command of Admiral Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic expedition, now heads the U.S. Antarctic program for the International Geophysical Year. Other qualifications for informed alarm: Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, national president of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the National Science Board...
...provoked Abboud to prepare his plot. He got set for his coup while Ismail was conferring in Cairo with Nasser. Khalil could depend on the army, since he personally conducted a purge in 1956. when every officer was "scrutinized for his political views." More important. Abboud's second-in-command. Major General Ahmed Abdel Wahab, is a close friend and relative of Khalil...