Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lair-the marble, mahogany, and gold-crusted officers' clubs built as a form of bribery by Pérez Jiménez. He offered not bribery but calming talk: "The armed forces are indispensable for the republic." He insistently hinted that the day of the bloodless, predawn coup had ended...
...case of the rugby team, which averages better home attendance than the varsity baseball team, the HAA grants no subsidy whatever and seals off other sources by not permitting team members to pass the hat among the crowd. But the coup de grace came Saturday when the HAA charged admittance to the rugby game. Although it collected admission for both the baseball and rugby contests on Soldiers Field, only one of these sports benefits from an HAA subsidy...
...glare of three floodlights, Marks marched former Batista Police Lieut. Eloy Contreras to a bullet-scarred wall, 36 feet from the firing squad. "Atención!" yelled Marks at 1:13 a.m. "Preparen . . . apunten . . . fuego!" After the volley, Marks stepped up to Contreras' writhing body, fired the coup de grâce with his .45 automatic-then had to shoot two more times before his man finally died. Guards took off Contreras' shoes, fingerprinted him, placed him in a plain wooden coffin, and loaded him aboard a hearse for delivery to waiting relatives...
...Britain's Austin-Healey Sprite, a junior edition of the popular Austin-Healey 100 sports car. It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795. Another entry: the handsome AC Aceca hardtop coupé that seats two with plenty of luggage space, goes 106 m.p.h., and costs around...
...Italy's Moretti Spyder four-cylinder convertible and Super Tourismo Coupé with top speed of 90 m.p.h. Price...