Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the death of Senator Burnet Maybank (TIME, Sept. 13), Brown, a state senator who controls the state Democratic executive committee, talked the committee into nominating him as a replacement. Conservative Democrats and almost all the state's daily newspapers wanted a primary. Infuriated by the coup, they united behind J. Strom Thurmond, a former governor and Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, as a write-in candidate. A write-in campaign has powerful obstacles to overcome, but loquacious Harry Vaughan certainly helped...
Hinh went around Saigon's cafes boasting that he could bring off a coup d'etat any time. "Diem doesn't know the people, and the people don't like him," Hinh said. "He has two good qualities. He's honest and pure. So is my daughter...
President Carlos Castillo Armas last week called on Guatemalans to go to the polls Oct. 10 and decide whether or not he should remain in power. The election call came astonishingly soon after the President's June coup against the pro-Red regime of Jacobo Arbenz. But the terms of Castillo Armas' decrees made the election practically defeat-proof...
...only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves. His presence was quite a coup: the Dalai Lama is a living God to his own people. Several years ago. uncertain of the Dalai Lama's loyalty, the Communists began to groom the exiled Panchen Lama as a rival. He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head. Last week both the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama...
...huge panorama of natural history by mounting thousands of birds, insects, snakes and animals for display. In 1801 he paid a farmer $300, a rifle and a couple of dresses for an odd heap of bones and permission to dig for more. From these, in his greatest scientific coup, he pieced together the first mastodon ever assembled...