Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellen Knauff, German-born bride of a naturalized U.S. citizen, would not be allowed to enter the U.S. Three Government witnesses, including a former Czech army major, had testified that she spied on U.S. Army Occupation Forces in Germany for the Czechoslovak government shortly before the 1948 Communist coup. Under the law, aliens may be excluded on a reasonable suspicion of espionage or subversion-conclusive proof is not required. Mrs. Knauff can still stall off exclusion for a while by two further appeals, but the Department of Justice is just as determined to keep...
Downfall & Comeback. In 1945, when dictatorships went out of fashion, army booted him out of office in a bloodless coup. Retiring to his native Rio Grande do Sul, he bided his time. As postwar inflation worsened, the Dutra government's popularity waned. By campaign time last year, the forces opposed to him had disintegrated...
...Killer." Last week Robbins Landon completed a Haydn Society coup he was sure would become a major musical event: the recording of Haydn's last opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, a four-act work that has never been staged...
Orpheus is Jean Cocetau's latest revolutionary addition to the cinema. This highly original and highly praised film is at the 55th Street Playhouse off Seventh Avenue. Cocetau's first grand coup, Beauty and the Beast runs through Thursday at the Irving Place (near 14th Street) along with "Ivan the Terrible" and and through tonight at the Thalia (95th and Broadway) along with the superb Italian film, Shoe Shine...
Czech Reds had always claimed that the pro-Communist coup of February 1948 was a spontaneous uprising by the masses to thwart a reactionary conspiracy. Last week the well-worn lie, its purpose served, was discarded. With Czechoslovakia's police state well entrenched, Deputy Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger* could afford to tell the truth: "Plans for a new people's democratic Czechoslovakia were made in Moscow" even before World War II ended. "Stalin in the Kremlin, with ingenious foresight, drew the outlines of a new Czechoslovakia, as well as of a brotherly new Poland...