Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days after his lightning army coup (TIME, March 17), Strong Man Fulgencio Batista moved last week from his Camp Columbia headquarters to the presidential palace in downtown Havana. His white linen suit soaked with sweat, his voice hoarse with fatigue, the "Chief of the Revolution" sat at his old presidential desk for the first time in seven years, greeting job seekers, delegations of sugar planters, union leaders and the press. Tired as he was, he grinned a big victor's smile...
...explained. "My destiny is to carry out revolutions without bloodshed. The only blood that will be spilled will be that of those who oppose us. No one will be persecuted. We ask only cooperation." Batista charged again that deposed President Carlos Prío had planned to stage a coup of his own in April to make sure that his candidate, Carlos Hevia, would win the June presidential election over Batista and the Orthodox Party's Roberto Agramonte. Said Batista of the ex-President: "He was protecting gangsters. Anarchy and chaos were sweeping the nation...
Double Defeat. The only citizens willing to take a stand against the Batista revolt were a small band of students who shut themselves up in the university, living off cookies from the canteen and shouting ineffectual defiance of Batista's coup. Police calmly ringed the area, allowing anyone to leave but none to enter; the demonstration soon petered...
...editors (it took two more years). When it turned out that Britannica had no funds for an immediate sales campaign, Adler started writing letters, published brochures, finally hopped a plane and started selling in person. Notable catches: William Paley, Paul Mellon, Marshall Field, Conrad Hilton, Harold Swift. His biggest coup: 40 sets at one go to Allied Stores...
Died. General Theodorus Pangalos, 73, who let his power as Greek army chief of staff go to his head, engineered a coup d'état in 1925, the following year rigged a phony plebiscite to get himself elected President, proceeded to abolish the constitution and make his own laws until an army cabal booted him out after 14 turbulent months; of tuberculosis; in Athens...