Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reverberations of Sunday's palace coup echo through the streets of Buenos Aires, the shouts of students are undoubtedly among the loudest voices supporting the democratic elements which replaced General Lonardi's provisional government. For according to Luigi Einaudi '57, returned from Argentina, students have played, and will continue to play, a significant role in transforming the one-time police state into a democracy...
...Gods, which will be published next year. Malraux's high scholarship in the selected portion, a preliminary philosophical comparison of the art of several cultures, is fully palatable to the casual reader by virtue of his immensely exciting style. While the editor has made an admirable journalistic coup in obtaining the selection, its brevity perhaps leaves Malraux out of the Review's context. Close perusal of the text and accompanying photographs, however, is richly rewarding...
Mission to Paris. The Communist arms deal with Egypt was a large and astute coup for the Russians, in effect enabling them to leapfrog the northern-tier defense (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) just set up by the West. It promised to be an embarrassment to the West, but to neighboring Israel it threatened to be a disaster. Israel's Pre mier Moshe Sharett rushed to Paris and then to Geneva to try to get help from the Western foreign ministers. He told them that his people were so wrought up over the Egyptian deal that they were seriously thinking...
...Fund for the Republic, it seemed a solid journalistic coup. The Fund, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation, had signed up the Washington Post and Times Herald's famed cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), to make 26 15-minute TV films of news comment illustrated by his cartoons, had allocated $200,000 to put on the programs...
Purchase of the planes was a coup for Pan Am's President Juan Trippe. By splitting his order between the only two U.S. manufacturers with jet transports, Pan Am has neatly squeezed out competitors, will get the first jet airliners into service...