Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly for Japan, he tried to negotiate a peace. Unable to make his colleagues face reality, he did not carry his opposition to the honorable point of resigning his job. In April 1946 Shigemitsu was hauled up before a war crimes tribunal for his associations with To jo & Co., and was later sentenced to seven years' imprisonment; he served 4½ years...
Builder, Manager, Fighter. With Vargas' interim successor, President Joāo Café Filho, barred by the constitution from succeeding himself, the voters of Brazil have three main presidential candidates to choose from...
...most reassuring anticoup voice came from the top. President João Café Filho, whose prestige would be needed to guarantee the success of a bloodless coup and avoid the risk of civil war, told an interviewer: "I will never be instrumental in establishing a dictatorial regime." At week's end, after a long conference with the President, General Canrobert decided that there was no reason why he should not enter the Central Army Hospital for a long-postponed medical checkup...
Strictly for the Bird. In Long Beach, Calif., Betty-Jo Michael got visitation rights at a predivorce hearing after her husband successfully bid for the custody of their pet parakeet, Pretty Boy, commented: "I figure that if I can keep the bird she'll come back...
...antics of the characters themselves, superbly paced by director Glen Goldberg, were a constant delight. Jo Linch as the nervous, be fuddled Mrs. Price demonstrated a fine talent for slapstick, especially in a very funny cigarette-lighting episode. Sheila Tobias, in tight black suit and trenchcoat, seemed perfectly cut out to play the sleek female assassin, and only Jordan Jelks, as the urbane Mr. Price, failed to enter the whacky spirit of the occasion. Mare Bragnoni, on the other hand, gave the best performance of all as the male assassin a lisping, bumbling misogynist who dispatches women for purely "humanitarian...