Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justified (in 1955, for example, the New Haven curtailed maintenance by some $3,000,000), the main trouble seemed to be Pat McGinnis himself. He is the son of a railroad gang foreman, and, before he took over the New Haven 20 months ago in a proxy coup (TIME, April 26, 1954), he had a reputation for fiscal wizardry. As head of the New Haven, he continued to keep the stockholders happy (estimated 1955 profits: $10.5 million). He worked hard at his job, spent more than 350 nights aboard his business car-almost always accompanied by his wife Lucile...
Gasped Hollywood's Daily Variety: "The most amazing coup in the history of the film business." The cause of Variety's amazement was a large and lightning-quick profit turned for General Teleradio, Inc. by its canny President Thomas F. O'Neil...
...last minute lay-up by Bob Hastings allowed the varsity to squeak by Saturday night with both a 60-59 victory over M.I.T. and coup of the highly unofficial city championship of Cambridge. A noisy crowd of over a thousand watched the tense goings-on at the Tech field house...
Capitalist Lamb's coup at Seiberling came on the heels of another victory. A fortnight ago, following 15 months of hearings and 2,000,000 words of testimony (TIME, March 21), an FCC examiner cleared Lamb of charges that he had "closely associated" with Communists in earlier years, recommended that his license to operate WICU-TV in Erie, Pa. be renewed...
...another coup, but a sequel to Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott's bloodless "preventive revolution" (TiME, Nov. 21). Last week War Minister Teixeira Lott was again the man in charge, and again his avowed purpose in calling out the troops was to defend the constitution against Brazil's so-called golpistas: the military-civilian faction that favors a golpe (coup) to keep President-elect Ju-scelino Kubitschek and leftist Vice President-elect Joao ("Jango") Goulart from taking office next January. Teixeira Lott reportedly has no burning admiration for Kubitschek, but he considers himself duty bound...