Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view in Detroit went two new experimental cars, the DeSoto Adventurer and the Dodge Firearrow, both designed by Chrysler and hand-built by Italian Bodymaker Ghia. The DeSoto is much like Chrysler's D'Elegance coupé, also hand built by Italy's Ghia, which was first shown last year-a simple, squarish grille, sweeping lines, and not too much cluttering chromium trim. But the Dodge is a brand-new car. Designed as a two-place sports car, it hugs the road like a lizard, features four headlights and a horizontal, propellerlike rub rail sweeping entirely around...
Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton defended his action in rushing warships and troops to Guiana to prevent a Communist coup (TIME, Oct. 19). Lyttelton accused the Guiana People's Progressive Party of 1) seeking to establish a one-party Communist state, 2) spreading racial hatred. He cited evidence that Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the East Indian dentist whom Lyttelton deposed from his post as Prime Minister, had conspired to organize a Red "People's Police.'' Two of Jagan's Cabinet ministers and his American wife Janet, a former Young Communist who became the deputy speaker...
Like a professor about to give a student his lessons, he handed me a long paper entitled "Agenda" and said crisply:"Read it." Subheadings spoke of the situation before Batista's coup in March 1952, the situation since then, and "solutions." When I said I had really come to ask about the solutions, the professorial attitude fell away and he laughed. He talked tensely, his brown eyes darting, his hands in constant movement. "Since the electoral solution looks impossible," he said, "we must adopt a revolutionary solution. This will lead to a restoration of constitutional government and the full...
When the British quashed an allegedly planned Communist coup in Guiana by suspending the colony's constitution and dismissing its top government ministers, they presumably were acting on behalf of western democracy. They reasoned that even such repugnant measures were preferable to the formation of a Communist haven in the West...
...French expression for love at first sight is un coup de foudre-a crash of thunder. When Jacques Rainier meets Ann Garantier at a carnival in Nice, the crash is shattering. Rainier is a one-armed French intellectual with a two-fisted attitude toward love and war. For 15 years-in Spain, the French air force, the R.A.F., the Maquis-he has been fighting "to defend a civilization which, from the Virgin Mary, Dante, Petrarch and the Troubadors...to the humblest of our movies...has always celebrated the cult of love." Ann is a Hollywood movie star who seems frigid...