Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tacoma-born George Shaw Wheeler, 41, his wife and four children, got to Czechoslovakia just before the Communist coup of February 1948. A U.S. Government employee since 1934 (NLRB, Department of Labor, War Production Board), Wheeler had served in a moderately important job with the U.S. Military Government in Germany. After two years and several loyalty investigations, he was fired in an economy drive. Wheeler went to Prague, got a job teaching economics in Charles University, wrote articles for the small Wallaceite National Guardian...
...abroad to study. In the 19203 a group of young Siamese revolutionists formed in Paris' Left Bank cafes. Two of them were Pridhi Banomyong and Phibun Songgram, who were to become rivals and to alternate in control of modern Siam. The revolutionists returned in 1932 to stage a coup which made Siam a constitutional monarchy. King Prajadhipok ceased to be the last absolute monarch left in the world...
...where the calm Ohio River (see map) bends gradually along a three-mile course with dams above and below it that control the currents. The crews can be comfortably housed in Marietta College dormitories, and the Baltimore & Ohio has promised an observation train. Pleased as punch with the coup, Marietta boosters were already starting a $20,000 fund-raising campaign to take care of the visitors...
...cousin, Fritz von der Schulenburg, was hanged by the Nazis for his part in the unsuccessful 1944 coup against Hitler, and an uncle, Friedrich, prewar ambassador to Moscow, was shot...
...British hopes pan out, the low-pitched roar of auto traffic may turn to a thin, high whine. Last week at Silverstone race track, Warwickshire, the Rover Co. of Birmingham showed off a gas-turbine sport coupé. Its unofficial name: the Whizzard...