Word: caraccioli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tegucigalpa this week, military officers shouldered aside Supreme Chief of State Julio Lozano Diaz. The framed election, which Lozano staged to transform himself into a legal President (TIME, Oct. 22), proved too raw for Honduras' younger, U.S.-trained officers to choke down. All last week Colonel Hector Caraccioli, 34, a U.S.-trained pilot who commands the air force, and Major Roberto Galvez, 31, an engineering officer who studied at Louisiana State University, talked it over with aging (71) Don Julio. Then, lining up support from General Roque J. Rodriguez, 55, commander of the country's military academy...
Sunday morning, air force planes patrolled the skies and troops deployed on the streets. From the military academy on the outskirts of the capital, Colonel Caraccioli telephoned Lozano: the time of decision had come. After holding out for the usual guarantees of life and property for himself and his associates, the old man signed his resignation...
...England," complained the Marquis di Caraccioli, a discriminating Neapolitan foreign minister in the 18th century, "has more than 60 different religions and only one sauce-melted butter." Other Continental gourmets, to whom the savoring of a delicately shaded sauce is almost a religion in itself, have shared his uncomplimentary views of English cookery. But the English, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable ramparts of bubble & squeak, cold shape and suet pudding, have gone right on boiling their Brussels sprouts and slicing their mutton too thick...
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