Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once again French paratroopers came to Léon Mba's rescue. Steel-helmeted paras sent in quickly by Charles de Gaulle had saved the Gabonese President's skin only two months ago, when his 400-man army pulled a predawn coup and replaced him briefly with Op position Leader Jean-Hilaire Aubame (TIME, Feb. 28). In putting down that rising, the French troopers killed 27 Gabonese soldiers, then spirited Aubame off to an island just outside the port capital of Libreville, decided to stay on in the former French colony to keep an eye on things. Back...
...houses. There was no question about the buyer's solvency; the husband was Actor Peter Lawford, and his wife, Pat, as everyone knows, is a Kennedy. After about a month of negotiation over the reported $125,000 asking price, the deal was set, and last week the co-op's board of directors met, as is the rule in cooperatives, to pass on the Lawfords...
...property. In a condominium, on the other hand, the tenant has title to his apartment, just as if it were a house. He arranges his own mortgage, thus may have to put down only, say, $10,000 of his own money on a $50,000 apartment. Co-op buyers customarily have to pay all cash, since the building is already mortgaged, though some coops permit buyers to make a down payment and pay the rest in installments...
...kind of mortgage he wants-paying off fast or slow; 2) if, in the unlikely event of a depression or a sudden decline in the neighborhood, all or most of the other occupants leave, the condominium owner is responsible for only his own mortgage and tax payments; the co-op owner, as a stockholder in the whole building, can be confronted with the alternative of paying the defaulting members' share or getting out himself; 3) the condominium owner can sell or rent to whom he chooses-including actors and Democrats...
Social Drama. Under the sweep of Béjart's bizarre and dark imagination, the sum of such tricks was a triumph. A dusty and innocuous opera became a modern social drama-and such events are just what the Paris Opéra needs to improve on its present status as the place across the street from American Express. But Béjart was booed as well as cheered by his audience, and the papers barely let him get out of town before they began their battle: "Paroxysms of vulgarity," "A universe of fantasy and poetry." SHOULD...