Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the point crystal clear, Castello Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines. "Go and pay now, gentlemen," he warned, "so that we do not have to come and get it from you. You owe a great deal to the revolution; and the government needs that money...
...GENTLEMEN: START YOUR ENGINES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). History of the Indianapolis 500-mile Speedway Race. Color...
...reappeared on the public payroll, the father as a $20,000 a year commissioner, and the son, with the sense of humor that is peculiar to Massachusetts, as chairman of the civil service commission. Apart from the unusual warmth and trust of the parental-filial relationship, neither of these gentlemen has any particular qualifications for office, any office; certainly no more than the judge who was once a lawyer who knew the Governor or the commissioner who is a defeated legislator. The Governor can be given the power to suspend all indicted state officials, and the Crime Commission...
...Gentlemen Terrorists...
...they too meet with a fairly consistent degree of success. Some get into group one, have papers called "brilliant" and teachers who adore them ruefully and become as a result extreme cynics. Some get consistent Gentlemen's C's. Others spend every weekend in Peru, pay someone to take their exams for them, and get bounced out. In every case, their grades make sense, as a measure of innate ability, cleverness, or writing skill. A bad mark is a slap in the face. If they are in A-1 condition on exam day, or hit on a really neat trick...