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...rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...
...helps TIME search out the thread of reality from the snarl of events in the Near East, an area of special interest to me since my wartime years there with the Office of War Information. Monica's beat is Israel alone. The nearby countries, including the Arab states, are covered by our Beirut Bureau, headed by Keith "Israel," Monica writes, "is a small country where 5,000 people buy TIME and a far greater number read it. This means that almost everyone I meet, from taxi driver to government official, knows exactly what has appeared in the magazine...
...this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers...
...industry, already troubled by a strike of 20,000 dockers. Coal piled up at the pitheads, steel mills closed, trawlers were laid up for lack of fuel. Commuters, who took to buses, cars and bicycles by the thousands to get to their offices, involved London in a huge traffic snarl. With the nation's vital export trade and its own prestige at stake, Sir Anthony Eden's new Tory government stepped in vigorously. In the Queen's name, Eden...
When World War II broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...