Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Salzburg, a town that never favored Mozart's music while he lived-and which he could not abide either-spent the day in commemorative folderol, and Austria plans a whole year of Mozartish festivities. Salzburg's musical coup last week: a rare performance of his opera La Finta Semplice, composed when Mozart was too young (12) to understand its labyrinthine plot or its Italian words. Chancellor Julius Raab pledged that his country would never let another promising Austrian musician starve...
...week. This six-party coalition, apologized old George Papandreou, was "purely pre-electoral," and the non-Communists made no "ideological commitments" to the Communists. But in the streets, cafés and foreign embassies, it was received quite plainly as a victory for the Communists. It was a great coup for Russian Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev: for 2½ years he has been backslapping through the Grecian hinterlands, working to efface the bitter anti-Communism of civil-war days...
...League has been trying to win converts to its sanitized policies, but naturally every new entrant to the sanity circuit cannot be rewarded with a spot on the crowded Ivy schedules. Chicago, however, is not a newcomer. Harvard, in fact, helped administer the coup de grace in Chicago's final season with a 61-0 affair at Stagg Field--one year after a 47-12 rite in Cambridge. Perhaps Harvard might atone for this gridiron homicide by welcoming the once disgraced Maroon back to intercollegiate football...
...came up the hard way, through the Young Communist League to Moscow's Marx-Engels Institute and a Communist teaching job. In 1941 he was assigned to the Soviet Foreign Office, and two years later he was head of the division dealing with central Europe. His biggest coup took place in 1948, when he masterminded the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. While maintaining a smiling relationship with President Benes, Zorin gathered together a team of Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow...
Groundwork for the coup was laid six months ago, when Teleradio (subsidiary of General Tire & Rubber Co.) paid Industrialist Howard Hughes $25 million for RKO Radio Pictures and RKO's well-stocked film library (TIME, Aug. 1, 1955). In December, O'Neil got back more than half the investment by selling television and foreign rights on 740 feature-length movies, almost all RKO owns, and some 1,000 short films to Manhattan's C&C Super Corp. C&C paid $12.2 million in cash and agreed to pay $3,000,000 more over the next two years...