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...hoped to hand out a few hundred rifles and a couple of machine guns to opposition-party civilians, start them shooting, then take over the presidency for the civilian plotters. But somebody talked, and Gálvez quietly squelched the plan without a bullet being fired or a viva sounded. Velasco and four confederates were sent to jail, while two others fled for asylum to the Guatemalan embassy...
...Rome's open-air opera in the Baths of Caracalla, two well-lighted Hollywood stars attended a performance of Verdi's Aïda. At the end of the first act, the audience spotted Princess Aly (Rita Hayworth) Khan sitting in the first row, excitedly howled "Viva Bellissima Rita!" The Princess, wearing a plain white evening gown embellished with white flowers, rose, smiled and bowed to her admirers. No one seemed to notice Signora Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini, who kept quietly to herself in the tenth...
...time. In this imperfect world not all individuals and not all peoples, however long they live, achieve it . . . Go into some Latin American countries where free speech is allowed, and, if an election campaign is in progress, note the campaign language painted on the walls of the town: Viva Rodríguez! Que muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England in such terms! Imagine placards crying...
...death of Benito Mussolini was attended by the dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, son Romano and daughters Anna Maria and Countess Edda Ciano. The black-clad Mussolini family stood throughout the long ceremony while a cordon of police surrounded the church. Arrested: one student who shouted "Viva Mussolini!" above the voices of the singers...
...around to putting the orchestra through Falstaff early last week, he found the orchestral parts full of wrong notes. Stopping the music, he would summon flutists and violists to the podium, hold the offending scores up to his nose so he could read them, then mock the publisher ("Viva la casa Ricordi...