Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholarship to study gunnery at Fontainebleau. France. In Paris in the '20s, he became friendly with Pridi Phanomyong, a Siamese political-science student who lived in the same pension; the two were destined to become political Siamese twins for the next 30 years. At the tables of the Café de Flore and the Deux Magots on the Left Bank, Phibun, Pridi and fellow expatriates plotted a revolution at home. Their schemes worked out successfully in the revolution of 1932, when King Prajad-hipok signed Siam's first constitution, which Pridi wrote...
...cruiser steamed into Lisbon harbor. Aboard was Brazil's Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace of the welcome...
...Ward is not the first to "drift horizontally" into café society, but smarter girls take jewels, avoiding income tax and naughty names. The real immoralists are her patrons, who have $100 to throw away on such prosaic entertainment. They, not Minot or his Patsy, should be tried. Other career girls also have started at the bottom. Pat's sin was not ambition but impatience...
...political earthquake that shook Brazil a fortnight ago (TIME. April 18) subsided last week. The process of reshuffling the Cabinet continued, but President Joâo Café Filho calmly went ahead with his plans to fly from Rio this week on a nine-day trip to Portugal, the Brazilian motherland. One reason he could be calm was that the 36th International Eucharistic Congress is scheduled to convene in Rio in July. With 1,000,000 Roman Catholic visitors expected, leaders of all factions want to keep up a hospitable appearance of normality. In the Cabinet comings and goings...
...vora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded three federal Cabinet posts and the Bank of Brazil presidency for citizens of São Paulo state, plus a whopping federal loan to the state government. The Távora men talked reluctant President Café Filho into signing a written pledge promising Quadros all that he asked...