Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil's Getulio Vargas, a dictator for 15 years, was forced out by the army in 1945, made a comeback as an elected President in 1950, but proved such a failure without dictatorial powers that he got a military ultimatum to step down in August 1954. Instead, aged 71, he put a bullet through his heart...
...Julio Lozano seized power during an election mixup in 1954, two years later claimed victory in a fraudulent election even before the ballots were counted; when his cops capped the fraud by firing into a crowd of demonstrators, he was ousted by a military junta, died in Miami last August...
...Last August, heartened by such assurances that the Russians would welcome a U.S. trade fair, Congress appropriated $2.2 million to finance a U.S. exhibit in Moscow, and a group of Commerce Department officials went to Russia to negotiate. But the Government ended up without an invitation and with Neuburger in control of the property it wanted to use. Government officials grumped that the U.S. could run a better fair than private enterprise, with its interest in profit, expressed fear that Neuburger would stock the fair with industrial machines and fertilizers instead of U.S. consumer goods that would really bedazzle...
...later, when Dentist Garvin's home-town Cincinnati Times-Star (157,409) started running his bylined weekly column and published a picture and thumbnail sketch of its author, the Cincinnati Dental Society objected that "Your Teeth" was a "weekly advertisement" and thus violated its code of ethics. Last August the dental society's twelve-man council voted to extract his membership card...
...like me to sing." After a session at the American Academy, she broke into television at 18, played leading roles for two seasons (Studio One, Kraft Theater], then put in a weary tour in Hollywood acting in second-rate films (New York Confidential, The Naked Street). Last August she went back to Manhattan to study acting with Drama Coach Herbert Berghof-and to find sudden fame on Broadway...