Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense, it was the coup de grace for mighty Buckpasser. Soon after the race, Trainer Eddie Neloy announced that the strapping horse would run no more, would retire to stud in Kentucky. It seemed a sound decision. Since early last year, Buckpasser has been afflicted by painful cracks in his right forehoof; this year, the condition became chronic, and without making excuses, said Neloy, "it definitely compromised his abilities in the Woodward...
...With urgent, hurried gestures, Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 64, ushered 15 visitors into his darkened living room. "We have only five minutes," he said. "Let us not stay here too long." Then the last constitutionally appointed Premier of Greece, who was overthrown, imprisoned and later released after the April 21 army coup, broke his long silence with a direct, head-on attack on Greece's military rulers...
Triangles can be as troublesome in politics as they are in romance. Thus, when a triumvirate of more or less equal members took over as Greece's new government after a military coup last April, it was almost inevitable that sooner or later the rule of three would be replaced by the rule of one strong man. Last week most Greeks agreed that Colonel George Papadopoulos, 48, was that...
...Mikis Theodorakis, 42, the composer best known for his scores for Zorba the Greek and Phaedra. An avowed Communist and leader of the Red-fronting Lambrakis youth movement, Theodorakis eluded the dragnet that rounded up 6,500 Communists in the early hours of the April 21 coup. The sound of his music bugged the junta, and after Theodorakis was finally nabbed last month, Athens buzzed with reports that the police had tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed...
Buildings & Brides. Another coup came last year when Kroyer was called upon to salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...