Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winning last week's Heptagonals championship by a disappointing 1 1/2 points may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the Crimson trackmen. Spurred on by their medicore performance at Ithaca, they just might pull a coup of major proportion in New York today in the IC4A indoor track and field championships...
Taking a mineral water cure for "liver insufficiency," the Shah of Iran, 44, daily commuted the 25 miles from Florence to the Montecatini spa in his Mercedes or new grey Ferrari 330 coupé, hitting speeds of up to 130 m.p.h. The Shah's liver perked up after a fortnight, and his wife, Farah Diba, 25, came on down from Innsbruck, where she had been skiing since the Olympics. Then they tooled into Rome where Fair Farah and the monarch, who had been working so hard at his land-and government-reform programs that his doctors had ordered...
...immolations* that have occurred since Diem's overthrow. Now, in a letter accompanying republication of the U.N. study by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Dodd declared that some of the mission's findings raise "doubts about the authenticity and spontaneity" of the Saigon suicides that preceded the coup...
...Staff, with a large following at V.F.W. posts across the country. Lancaster is convinced that President Marsh is taking the country to Hell. His aide, Kirk Douglas, does not like the disarmament treaty any more than General Lancaster. But when he discovers that Lancaster is planning a military coup, he is caught between respect for military discipline and his belief in the principles of the Constitution. The principles of the Constitution win out: Douglas tells President March what Lancaster is planning...
Expansion of the Harvard group is considered a major coup for the forces of Gov. Rockefeller. By one estimate, about three quarters of its members back the New York governor...