Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with all the politeness in the world the learned Portuguese judges could not disregard a bulky file, uncovered in Galvão's apartment, which contained a detailed blueprint for the overthrow of the government. In his own defense, Galvão pleaded that the carefully constructed plot was merely an outline for a play he had in mind...
...Plot's Roots. The stern lines of disapproval that are the normal set of Pedro Aramburu's face deepened as he watched his country's political and economic slide. In 1950, as a colonel, Aramburu joined three other army officers in the beginning of the plot that finally dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing...
...other duties, i.e., "Frinstance, the Ladies' gets stopped up, don't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and put your 'ands into 'em. A little bit soap, a little bit water, everything's gone and forgotten. For dead babies, inform the police." The plot, such as it is, concerns two wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper named Godbolt from whom he rents his movie theater (formerly a church); Sam hates Godbolt for no better reason than that he cheated him. The other war is fought by Daniel...
...happy that King Hussein has apparently thwarted the Egyptian-Syrian plot against him. Let us hope that Hussein's new-found power does not go to his head...
Both hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...