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...space grab was Wechsler's own idea. Only recently relieved of some of his duties as Post editor (while keeping the title), Wechsler has begun to grind out a column. Early in his new career he wangled a long afternoon's chat with the President...
...doubt that by vast, showy projects and wild fiscal extravagance, Menderes had brought Turkey close to ruin, and consistently tried to hide the fact by severe press censorship and high-handed rule. But many Turks wondered whether the death penalty was justified for this offense and for the grab bag of other charges raised against Menderes and his fellow defendants in court. Among the charges: inciting anti-Greek riots in 1955, threatening the life of former Turkish President Ismet Inonu, organizing a riot to destroy a newspaper, profiting from the sale of a dog received as a gift from...
...controlled boom economy. During the election campaign, with all major parties agreeing on foreign policy, there were no issues except a dutiful conservative complaint about inflation. No one bothered to make a serious fight against the anti-NATO, ban-the-bomb mavericks, which may explain how they managed to grab their two seats. If the elections accomplished nothing else, they brought excitement to the country's long becalmed politics...
From the start, opportunist Jango Goulart showed that he understood the realities-and the possibilities-of his situation. No one knew better than he that if he made an overt grab for full power, a civil war would result in which he could only lose. In all the fog surrounding Jánio Quadros' resignation, the one certainty emerging is that Quadros never intended his Vice President Goulart to rule (presumably he thought the prospect so alarming that he would be called back). Before he resigned, Quadros summoned his three armed forces ministers and brusquely told them: "With this...
Snopeses of San Lio. Though she acquires titles, Ippolita stems from a clan that was born below the stairs in other people's manors. The Raugeos are Italian versions of Faulkner's wily Snopeses, who grab, trick and weasel their way into the landed gentry. Befriending a Raugeo is as safe as petting a crocodile. Raised to overseer by a count, Ippolita's greatgrandfather snaps up all the nobleman's holdings to make the Raugeos the richest, and the meanest, landowners in the town of San Lio. He passes on the family faith: the land...