Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rented house. In three years he has become a multimillionaire, the nation's No. 1 cattleman. As of last week, Rojas owned at least nine ranches and tens of thousands of cattle, all branded "13," the lucky date in June 1953 when he brought off a swift military coup and began hurrying along the highroad to wealth. Rojas has a fenced-off market for his beef: he supplies the nation's army commissaries, which not only provision the troops but sell to civilians as well...
...Coup de Grâce. In Poitiers, France, stuck with a 32-room chateau he could not sell because of high repair costs and real-estate taxes, Louis Vuilleumier despairingly bought 130 sticks of dynamite, blew...
...passes him from cylinder to cylinder, from roller to roller, from ball to ball, from dinner to dinner, and, with each day that passes, flattens him out a little more." The genius of the Romantic movement had "lost his way" and might never have found it again if the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon (which Hugo fought in the Assembly, then in the streets) had not caused him to flee into exile...
...take a flyer on the works of a young unknown. Tempted by such examples as Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), whose canvases in eight years have jumped in average price from $50 to more than $1,000, dealers, brokers and middlemen are buying paintings, hoping for a "beau coup" (lucky strike). Occasionally art dealers buy up an artist's whole studio full of works, salt them away until the artist's work brings a premium...
...delegate to the U.N. Social and Economic Conference in Geneva, Cahfee made a speech inquiring why a Czech friend of his was at the first meeting of the conference but absent from the second. Incidentally alluding to the Russian coup of the week before in Czechoslovakia, Chafee lamented the fact that the Czechs were not represented at the Conference. The speech, he recalls, made the Reds feel uncomfortable for the remainder of the session. Chafee was told not to become too intimate with the Russian delegate. "I'm not too well built to do what I'm told though...