Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's youngest Deputy, a handsome, tough tavern brawler with a law degree, a kind of lowbrow intellectual primitive who is currently the darling of Paris café society. Son of a fisherman, he won a scholarship to study law in Paris, cut an impressive swath through the Latin Quarter's bistros and student clubs. After graduation, he volunteered for service in Indo-China as a parachutist ("I was tired of amateur fighting"), but got there too late to fight...
...money from rich friends and took off for Europe-supposedly to study, but actually to satisfy his itch to see what lay beyond the Belo Horizonte horizon. He did some serious postgraduate work at clinics in Paris. Berlin and Vienna, but he also spent a lot of time in caf...
...sturdiest military opponent of the golpistas was majestic, stony-faced Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, War Minister under President João Café Filho, Vargas' successor. No great admirer of Kubitschek, non-political General Lott felt, nevertheless, that the army's clear duty was to accept the voters' decision and uphold the constitution. With most of the key army commanders on his side, Lott had enough firepower to keep the anti-inauguration camp from even trying to bring off a golpe-so long as he remained War Minister. To be on the safe side, Lott...
Early in November President Café Filho, who had tried to stay neutral in the behind-the-scenes struggle, suffered a mild heart attack and went on sick leave. In keeping with the constitution, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz, suspected of golpista sympathies, took over as Acting President. On Nov. 10 Luz forced General Lott to resign. Lett's successor, a golpista army general, was waiting in the next room...
Ambassador's Victory. The deal was cooked up and served to the startled public last week. This six-party coalition, apologized old George Papandreou, was "purely pre-electoral," and the non-Communists made no "ideological commitments" to the Communists. But in the streets, cafés and foreign embassies, it was received quite plainly as a victory for the Communists. It was a great coup for Russian Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev: for 2½ years he has been backslapping through the Grecian hinterlands, working to efface the bitter anti-Communism of civil-war days...