Word: letts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first four-minute mile (1954), in the same year beat the Soviet Union's great Vladimir Kuc to set a world record for three miles (he shocked the Red athletes at a post-meet dinner by lighting up a big black cigar); and Anna Lett, 27, pretty blonde TV producer; in London. Ushers: Dr. Roger Bannister and Chris Brasher...
...ordinary police crackdown, but a carefully planned piece of political strategy. The man behind it: War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott, who staged 1955's famed "preventive coup" to ensure constitutional government, but who lately has been showing increasing annoyance at parliamentary foibles. The main target of General Lett's ire is the opposition National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), of which Tenorio is a prominent member. The U.D.N. deputies have taken advantage of congressional immunity to insult high army brass in speeches; allied with other blocs in Congress, they have also sabotaged President Juscelino Kubitschek's anti-inflation program...
...lawyer on a pad, Prosecutor Melford Stevenson got permission from the presiding magistrate "to deal with the deaths of two other patients of Dr. Adams who died in circumstances which the Crown says exhibit similarity to the death of Mrs. Morrell." These two were wealthy Alfred John Hul-lett, 71, and his wife, Gertrude, 50, who died within four months of each other...
...revolution" to assure the inauguration of President-elect Kubitschek, General Lott stood out as a stout defender of law and democracy. But after playing his role as guardian of the constitution, he lingered on in the councils of the government. Kubitschek's opponents charged that the President was Lett's puppet...
...tried to stay neutral in the behind-the-scenes struggle, suffered a mild heart attack and went on sick leave. In keeping with the constitution, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz, suspected of golpista sympathies, took over as Acting President. On Nov. 10 Luz forced General Lott to resign. Lett's successor, a golpista army general, was waiting in the next room...