Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the streets. Seven Iraqi air force MIG-19s whined low over the presidential palace, peppering it with rockets. Tanks took up positions at the Baghdad radio station. For the second time in ten months, former Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, 42, was up to his old tricks, launching a coup in the name of Nasser-style socialism. The bulk of the army rallied to the side of the government, quashing the uprising. The difference was that last week President Abdel Rahman Aref decided to take no more chances with Razzak. He was captured, and "legal action" was promptly taken...
...Then Voltaire. In Switzerland, Boswell pulled off the first great coup of his tufthunting tour: an interview with Europe's second most famous author-Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "Go away!" moaned Rousseau, who had to go to the bathroom. "Not yet!" Boswell gritted. "I still have 25 minutes." Liking his nerve and his sincerity, Rousseau gave Boswell six interviews and sent him on his way with a sackful of quotes. Nine days later, Boswell was interviewing Europe's most famous author-Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman...
...describe Floyd McKissick, national director of CORE, as "winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer" [June 10]. There was no coup, covert or overt, internal or external. There was no "ousting." My resignation was of my own volition. I made that decision in order to launch a literacy campaign under auspices of the Center for Community Action Education to supplement the fight waged by the civil rights movement, lest, when equal opportunity is won, we find that many are unable to enjoy their new freedom. At my request CORE set up a committee...
...usual in Argentina, it was the possibility of a military coup. Dissatisfied with Illia's laissez-faire philosophy of government, and particularly alarmed at the prospect of a Peronist victory in the gubernatorial elections next March, the army had just handed Illia a warning to get a move on-or else. So into the Casa Rosada last week filed his eight ministers, ten ministerial-rank Secretaries of State and Vice President Carlos Humberto Perette. When they filed out again, they promised the army that action would be taken. From now on, the Cabinet decided, it would meet with...
...Hand for the Little Lady may sound like a cue for applause, but the title actually refers to a cardsharp coup. Rigged to resemble a movie, this indoor western is really a hilarious old television show by Sidney Carroll, who has adapted his original for the large screen without obvious padding. Regrettably, though, the sneaky trick ending remains the sort of hokum that good writers have blue-penciled since O. Henry's heyday. Probably no one will object to the bottom dealing because Little Lady is handsome entertainment, mounted with leathery high spirits by a crew who would gladly...