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...Words a Day. No hint of such a source comes to light in the little that is known of Sabatini's reclusive life. The son of an Italian operatic tenor and an English soprano, he was raised in Oporto, Portugal, where his father found work as a singing teacher. The boy went off to school in Switzerland and at 17 got a job as a clerk in London. One day in 1901, rising 26 and bored with answering foreign mail for a rubber company, he dashed off a short story in English and sent it to a magazine. Within...
...failure of an abortive radical coup, Portugal's moderates took charge last week in what might fairly be called a middle-road revolution. Since the putdown of the Nov. 25 leftist plot, more than 100 officers and soldiers have been arrested and flown to a safe prison in Oporto. Other radical officers and civilians fled the country, as did a scruffy mob of youthful revolutionary groupies from other nations in Western Europe, who had flocked to Lisbon to help the cause. "It's dreadful," complained one beautiful Swedish blonde. "The revolution's over...
...loyalist commandos who died in putting down the rebellion-Lieut. Jorge de Oliveira Coimbra and Corporal Joaquim dos Santos Pires-were given heroes' funerals after their bodies lay in state at a Lisbon church. Coimbra was buried in Oporto, and tens of thousands lined the roads from the capital to pay their respects...
...camera, as if his TelePrompTer had gone berserk. "They tell me I have to get off," he said. "It's probably for technical reasons ... No, it's not?" He was cut off, and Lisbon transmission was taken over by a station 175 miles to the north in Oporto, a conservative stronghold. The program switched from the hortatory sounds of rebellion to the happy song and dance of Danny Kaye's 1963 movie The Man from the Diners' Club...
More than 100 officers and noncoms were arrested and flown off to prison in Oporto, and at week's end police were searching for civilian extremist leaders. Lisbon newspapers, which had largely become radical-propaganda tracts, were shut down; they will probably not print again until new moderate editors are installed. Strict rules were also promulgated to curb armed civilians, who helped create the atmosphere of anarchy. "An armed civilian is a dead civilian," warned one commando officer. President Costa Gomes even mentioned the possibility of holding parliamentary elections. The left would almost certainly be defeated in the voting...