Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placid, two-ton rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...
Brazilians were inordinately coup-conscious last week because General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, the respected chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, had made it painfully clear in a weekend speech that top military men were prepared to consider "intervention" if it seemed to them that the October presidential election threatened to bring on "revolution and chaos." But, paradoxically, the general's stern words may have lessened the immediate danger of a coup. The speech evoked an answering torrent of anticoup sentiments from the press, public, politicos and even some military leaders. That strong reaction would probably influence...
...most reassuring anticoup voice came from the top. President João Café Filho, whose prestige would be needed to guarantee the success of a bloodless coup and avoid the risk of civil war, told an interviewer: "I will never be instrumental in establishing a dictatorial regime." At week's end, after a long conference with the President, General Canrobert decided that there was no reason why he should not enter the Central Army Hospital for a long-postponed medical checkup...
VOLKSWAGEN, which will turn out its 1,000,000th postwar car next month, is going into the middle-class market with a new de luxe model. Instead of the familiar, beetlelike lines, Volkswagen's Ghia Coupé car will have low, sporty lines, look something like Italy's swank ($3,500 and up) Alfa Romeo. Price: $1,785 in Germany...
...years ago, Busch scored his biggest advertising coup by buying the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team when the Cardinals' owner, Fred Saigh, was jailed for income-tax evasion. Ostensibly, Busch bought the Cardinals to save them for St. Louis. But he makes no bones about the fact that the team helps him sell more Budweiser. When sportswriters needle him about his commercialism, Busch snorts that Colonel Jacob Ruppert owned the New York Yankees for 30 years while he also owned Ruppert brewery, and that many of the 16 major-league team broadcasts are sponsored by beer companies...