Word: alley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They engineered the coup without even taking the canvas covers off the guns on their vehicles. A "Military Revolutionary Committee" installed Lieut. Colonel Alphonse ("the Paratrooper") Alley, 37, popular chief of staff, as President. Soglo sought asylum in the French embassy, where visitors reported that he was "quite depressed." He will probably want to wait at least until next Christmas before organizing any resistance. At week's end, he flew to Paris, where he will join three ex-Presidents of Dahomey, all coup victims who are now living nicely in the city's fashionable arrondissements...
...buildings should be approached with a sense of humor," says Esherick. For fun, he split the massive factory in two with a zigzagging Italianate alley, designed a mysterious maze of stairways and pedestrian bridges. Martin, an unabashed eclectic, has refurbished an old Fifth Avenue double-decker bus for neighborhood excursions, is leasing a 13th century Moorish ceiling to one of the ladies' specialty shops. From the estate of William Randolph Hearst, he has purchased a 95-ft.-long oak-paneled gallery, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones and built by Queen Elizabeth I for her Ambassador...
...that phase from photographic realism to violent impressionism. But many of the paintings, done by artists living in the neighborhood the medical building serves, are tinged with bitterness against white authority and the Government. For the building is the new Watts Health Center, smack in the middle of "Charcoal Alley," scene of the fiery Negro riots...
...Viet Cong tried again next day, this time attempting a two-pronged attack from the east across the airstrip runway. It was a disastrous tactic; a howitzer at the south end of the field was in a position to fire right down the runway-"like shooting down a bowling alley," as one of the gunners put it. As the Viet Cong, 30 and 40 at a time, tried to sprint across the strip, the big howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint on the lone gun's barrel...
Wednesday, October 11 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). *George Burns hosts "Tin Pan Alley Today," with Guests Dionne Warwick, Dick Cavett, the Harper's Bizarre, Tony Tanner, Nancy Ames, Sergio Mendes and Brasil...