Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College football histories traditionally read like almanacs, and are coveted only by that species whose cocktail party coup is to name the starting lineup of the 1909 Harvard-Yale debacle. Yale football, however, with its Pudge Heffelfinger, Ted Coy, Little Boy Blue Albie Booth , a great winning record, and a sensationalism now fostered by Herman Hickman offers a natural source material of interest to football fans who never sat in the New Haven saucer...
...make relations between the two countries more cordial. The President sharply replied that the best way to do that was to release Reporter Oatis. "The President said further that relations between our two countries had deteriorated ever since Jan Masaryk [Czech Foreign Minister at the time of the Communist coup] was murdered." (No other government has ever before officially challenged the Communist story that Masaryk committed suicide. Short, in his account, stressed the word "murdered.") It looked as if U.S.-Czech relations would not be what they once had been, the President continued, unless Czechoslovakia changed its policy. "The ambassador...
Foreign Uniform. For his coup de grace, McCarthy pulled out of his bag a life-size photograph of a man in a foreign military uniform. This he identified as one Gustavo Duran, who once held a "top job" in the State Department (aide to Latin American Expert Spruille Braden, 1943-46), and now works for the United Nations Secretariat. The blur of McCarthy rhetoric implied that Duran had been a member of the Russian secret police in Europe, and his photograph was right there to prove it. (What Joe actually said was: Duran was head of something called "S.I.M...
Freed, he went back to hatred. Last November the few remaining Nationalist fanatics (about 400) of Albizu's party unleashed an armed revolutionary coup timed with an attempt to assassinate President Truman. In all, 33 persons were killed before the rising was put down. "The law will fall on whoever is responsible for this tragedy," promised Puerto Rican Governor Muñoz Marín. That meant Albizu Campos. Last week, in a half-empty courtroom, Albizu was convicted on twelve charges of trying to overthrow the Puerto Rican government by force. Maximum penalty on each charge: ten years...
SYRIA (pop. 3,227,000): another slice of Ottoman Turkey mandated to France after World War I; republic, completely independent since 1946. Head of state: President HASHIM BEY ATASSI, 85. Real boss: Colonel ADIB SHISHAKLI who seized power in a coup late in 1949. Army: 25,000, one armored brigade, French equipment, weak staff. Militant member of the Arab League...