Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months-by cable, special emissary and high-level negotiation-CBS tried for the TV coup of the year. Fortnight ago, everything seemed to be set. Arriving in the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov agreed by telegram to face a battery of U.S. reporters on CBS's Face the Nation. Details, the telegram said, could be ironed out at San Francisco, where the telecast would originate following the tenth commemorative meeting of the United Nations...
...When the Depression hit Detroit, he reacted with a surge of Socialist hope and a sense of historic urgency. Excitedly, he joined picket lines and soapboxed at breadlines, organized soup kitchens and leftist student clubs. In the 1932 presidential campaign, he mounted a rear platform on his old Ford coupé and campaigned for Socialist Norman Thomas...
...Yugoslavs took pains to inform the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office that the visit would not affect Yugoslavia's "cordial and good relations with the West." But all in all, it was quite a coup for Communism's No. i renegade: never before had Headman Khrushchev traveled beyond the border of Kremlin-styled Communism. Tito was probably too cagey to put his head all the way into the bear's mouth. But at the very least, he seemed to be very busy at the old Balkan game of playing off major powers, in hope...
Sukhanov refused to become a Bolshevik and regarded Lenin and Trotsky as brazen adventurers, ignorant of the mas ter role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history...
...Dinh Diem. The Binh Xuyen gangster sect, supported by French colonials, started a bloody uprising and was put down. While the fires of civil war guttered out in the refugee-crowded streets of Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), a Vietnamese general, supported by French colonials, tried a midnight coup d'état and almost succeeded. Locked in this squalid conflict were the precarious hopes of Vietnamese nationalism, the ambitions of French colonials and the committed prestige of the U.S. Government...