Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exit Ludwig. A duel in the Bois de Boulogne (afterwards, Lola looked smashing in her bereaved-mistress' weeds) set her firmly in the center of what would now be called cafe society. But her real career began when she was engaged to dance in Munich and bewitched old King Ludwig (her bodice tore at just the right moment and place). Lola moved into the posh palace he built for her in Munich and prepared to run the country. Then, as now, advanced ideas were a prime source of self-advertisement, and Lola had absorbed a set of "bold...
...claimant was Joao Cafe Filho. who went on sick leave early in November when he suffered a mild heart attack. During his illness he was succeeded, in rapid order, by 1) Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz. who was promptly ousted by Teixeira Lott on suspicion of favoring the golpistas, and 2) Senate President Nereu Ramos, no golpista. After Luz meekly accepted his dismissal, Cafe Filho suddenly decided that he felt well enough to take over again. Last week Teixeira Lott called on him at a Rio nursing home, hinted that the army might let him return if he would...
...When Cafe Filho. looking gay and nimble, moved back to his apartment near Copacabana Beach that afternoon, army troops and red-capped riot police surrounded the building, keeping him under what amounted to house arrest...
State of Siege. After long and bitter debate, Congress sided with Ramos, declared that "Cafe Filho's previously recognized impediment remains effective until further deliberation by Congress." Cafe Filho then asked the Supreme Court to void Congress' decision. It seemed likely that the court, on constitutional grounds, might have to decide in Cafe Filho's favor. To bar that embarrassment. President Ramos called upon Congress to vote a state of siege, a modified form of martial law that suspends, along with some other rights, the right of recourse to a court injunction against actions of the government...
...impose." (Today he half apologizes for the article by pointing to all the nasty things the Western press has said about Russia.) Oistrakh seems to enjoy a large degree of independence from the usual restrictions on junketing Russians. Getting interested in a conversation with a Western friend in a cafe, he has been known to pick up the telephone, call the Russian embassy and say simply: "This is Oistrakh. I won't be back for lunch...