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...little more than 25 years, Thailand has had 13 coups or attempted coups, often accompanied by assassination. But what happened last week in Bangkok was not a coup d'état, nor even a coup de main, coup de Jarnac, coup de grâce, coup de maitre, coup de pied or a coup d'oeil. Searching for the trenchant Gallic phrase to describe Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's apparent coup against himself, the best that observers could manage was coup de repos, i.e., a move that leaves the main features of a situation unchanged...
...Bourbon Institute? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Est-ce un hopital? Non? Un musee? Non? Alors, monsieur, je regrette...
...week's end a petition signed by prominent islanders was on its way to Paris urging President Rene Coty not to grant Tahiti an independence it does not want. Politician Ceéran-Jeérusalemy had second thoughts as well, and put in a long-distance call to President Coty to promise that he and his entire R.D.P.T. Party were "indefectibly" attached to France after...
...National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell had to admit that there is no rule against it. There soon will be, he promised, while French Canadian Goalie Faille still played the bewildered innocent: "Fasten? Unfasten? How you say it? Mais oui, c'est tres fascinating, n'est-ce...
Beck v. Beck. First was a gentle coup de grâce to be administered to outgoing President Dave Beck. Fat Dave, once the unchallenged Teamster baron who patted little Jimmy Hoffa on the head, was to be booted into retirement (with an annual $50,000 pension) because of his outsize financial shenanigans, because he had been accused of fleecing a Teamster's widow, and because he had stood in the way of ambitious Jimmy. Bellowed Beck, in an hour-long swan song: "To thine own self be true! I would like to see the man who can stand...