Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-61) had never publicly criticized Goulart. But now his patience had run out. He warned angrily: "Goulart has gone too far." Instead of falling back, Goulart last week went before a meeting of military police noncoms to accuse the army and navy brass of "carrying out intrigues" against him, and to label the opposition "a minority of privileged ones who live with eyes turned toward the past." So worked up was Goulart that his worried aides summoned his private physician, and the doctor stayed by his side through the rest of his speech, lest...
Reid's most crucial moment came in an earlier test of strength with military brass jealous of his influence. To get the upper hand, he recently called in the army and navy chiefs of staff one at a time to inform them of a new system of rotating the three military staff command positions every 18 months. Getting wind of Reid's maneuver, officers of the powerful air force grew restless, and coup rumors crackled through the capital. Immediately, Reid called in the air force chief of staff-either accept the rotation plan, he put it bluntly...
...reception was pointedly restrained, but the dapper, dusky VIP who debarked at the Amsterdam air port last week could hardly expect brass bands. Dr. Subandrio, Indonesia's Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier, was the highest-ranking official from Djakarta to set foot in The Netherlands since the Dutch bitterly granted his rebellious nation independence 15 years ago. His aim in "normalizing ties" has been increasingly evident for months...
Barking Bagel. The show she dominates has a big New York sound, full of brass and sentiment, something that could have been written by Horatio Algerstein for the Ladies Home Joinal. A poor Jewish girl with limitless fight and no visible assets claws, clowns and sings her way to the top of show biz. She marries a beautiful cardboard man and realizes her most soaring dreams of love, only to lose him because she is more successful than...
Died. Vice Admiral John Madison ("Uncle John") Hoskins, 65, who lost his right foot in a Japanese attack on the carrier Princeton in Leyte Gulf in 1944, seadoggedly battled top brass to return to duty ("Hell, Admiral, the Navy doesn't expect a man to think with his feet," he told "Bull" Halsey), by 1950 won command of the Seventh Fleet's Carrier Division III, whose jet squadrons led the attack in Korea; of a stroke; in Falls Church...