Word: bloodlessness
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...first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar assured him that the final disposition of the Nagy group would be "bloodless." The Secretariat of the Polish Communist Party circulated a letter declaring that Polish Communist leaders "disassociated" themselves from the executions...
...Great Silence. The delicate-and for the first two weeks, bloodless-state of balance could not last indefinitely, for two great forces were in a deadly duel to determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering...
Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
Though the skilled directorial hand of John Frankenheimer showed through cleanly in the crowd scenes, Manolete was largely an attenuated and unlyrical hymn to the man. Only Actor Nehemiah Persoff as the manager brought emotional content to a bloodless script: "We kept asking for more and more and more," says Persoff after Manolete has been gored for the last time. "And more was his life...