Word: bloodlessness
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...blue and white DC-7 skimmed clear of the sand dunes surrounding Somalia's primitive Mogadishu Airport, then wheeled out over the Indian Ocean toward Asia. In his chartered KLM air liner, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, his hard face lined and bloodless, watched Africa drop behind him. In the course of his 53-day safari, he had toured ten nations, ranging from so traditional a monarchy as Morocco to so Red-hot a republic as Ghana, with time out for a side trip to Albania...
...France has quietly been offering its "cordial cooperation" in uniting North and South Viet Nam under a neutralist government free of "foreign influence," meaning free of U.S. influence. French agents moved with proposals between Hanoi and Saigon until a jittery anti-neutralist general, Nguyen Khanh, last week staged a bloodless coup against the military junta ruling South Viet Nam on the grounds that its members were being seduced by French offers...
Thus, only three months after the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Big Minh's regime was itself overturned in a bloodless coup that was so well planned and unexpected that most Saigon citizens first heard of it from a government broadcast 16 hours later. Arrested with Minh were Commander in Chief General Tran Van Don; General Le Van Kim, chief of the joint general staff; Interior Minister General Ton That Dinh; and National Police Chief General Mai Huu Xuan...
Trick Achieved. Though Marshal Sarit ruled Thailand as an absolute dictutor, he had a strong sense of responsibility toward country and people. "Anybody can stage a revolution," he said after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1957. "The trick, once the revolution has been staged, is winning public approval." On doctor's orders, he went on the wagon, began housecleaning Thailand from top to bottom. He banned opium smoking, and when a rash of fires broke out in Bangkok's business district one winter, he ordered four Chinese merchants shot-a brutal but effective reminder that...
...decide whether the love she feels for him is sacred or profane. When "God takes him away," Actress Simmons, facing widowhood and the birth of another child, capably brings off several scenes of throat-filling pathos. Helping her along is the family -here presented as a gallery of bloodless tintypes except for Aline MacMahon, repeating her stage portrayal of Aunt Hannah, and Pat Hingle as Jay's bumptious undertaker brother, whose hands reek of formaldehyde. Finally, Mamma tells Rufus that his father isn't really gone, after all, because, well . . . feel the baby...