Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberals, the party of Cavour, who sealed Garibaldi's military successes with the political coup that united Italian provinces and kingdoms into one nation. The Liberals, still anticlerical, supported the House of Savoy against the Pope (and the Republicans). Their appeal now is mostly to intellectuals...
...Bruckberger, is a French Dominican priest, recently transplanted to the U.S., whose earlier books of memoirs and stories (One Sky to Share, Golden Goat) have had considerable success (TIME, Aug. 11; Nov. 24). His purpose in writing this one was to bring back to life the Magdalene, "la Femme coupèe en morceaux-the woman hacked into bits by modern exegetes...
Somehow he persuaded the Kremlin to forgive his error; perhaps the black mark against him was erased by the smooth and effective way in which he (with Rudolf Slansky's help) engineered the Communist coup of 1948 against worn-out Eduard Benes and disillusioned Jan Masaryk. After that, all Gottwald had to do was suppress his rivals and keep Moscow happy, both of which he managed fairly well. But Moscow has not been 100% happy, for Czechoslovakia, a highly industrialized and once prosperous nation, has been in deepening economic crises for the past five years...
Ever since Naguib's coup of last July stripped 33-year-old King Farouk of his crown, Narriman has had to contemplate Farouk's powerful, hairy wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen...
Nash's Le Mans. To its Nash-Healey sports-car line, Nash Motors added a coupé, the Le Mans. Designed by Pinin Farina, it is low-slung (55 in. high) and racy, has a six-cylinder 140 h.p. engine (up from last year's 125 h.p.). Price: about...