Word: manly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the 36-year rule of Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar ended last year, the old man is not yet aware of it. Still immobilized after a stroke and a coma 13 months ago, Salazar calls Cabinet meetings, and his old ministers faithfully attend-even though some of them are no longer in the Cabinet. No one has found the courage to tell the 80-year-old dictator that he has been replaced...
General Médici is known as "a man of few smiles and friends." He won some key friends in 1964, when he gave major support to the coup that established Brazil's military rule. Raised in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil's rugged cattle country, the new President is a compromise choice acceptable to both moderate officers and the linha dura -hardliners who would crack down even harder on dissent. Like most of his comrades-in-arms, he is convinced that only the military knows what is best for Brazil and its 90 million people. "There...
...lottery. "I don't know whether I'm lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced to 30 years in jail, Biggs escaped in 1965. The last thing he wanted in his Australian hideaway was the publicity of a lottery hit. Even...
...Biggses splurge. On their last big evening out, a month ago, a Melbourne nightclub photographer snapped a picture of them sipping wine and enjoying crêpes. After the manhunt for Biggs began, the photographer remembered the face and gave police an up-to-date look at the man they have been after for four years...
...What is more, the rumor is not likely to die before he does; after the event, which could occur 50 or so years from now, the last surviving mongers of this particular rumor will triumphantly crow: "I told you so." For reasons that go back to the origins of man, the human intellect craves to discover more meaning than facts can supply. What it does not know it will guess at. Airborne by ignorance and insecurity, that supposition will almost always defy the attempts of reason to shoot it down...