Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nagasaki bomb fall at about a distance of three miles away ... I was a civilian internee at a camp in a suburb of Nagasaki, and on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, was out on a hillside . . . cutting grass for two cows which we had to keep for our Japanese guards ... A plane swooped over my head . . I watched it as it was about to disappear over a low ridge which lay between me and the center of the city . . . Suddenly, there was a tremendous flash, far brighter than the sun . . . The next thing I knew, I was lying...
...most intelligent and provocative efforts yet made to reconstruct her character and its meaning. The author, Father Raymond Leopold Bruckberger, is a French Dominican priest, recently transplanted to the U.S., whose earlier books of memoirs and stories (One Sky to Share, Golden Goat) have had considerable success (TIME, Aug. 11; Nov. 24). His purpose in writing this one was to bring back to life the Magdalene, "la Femme coupèe en morceaux-the woman hacked into bits by modern exegetes...
...Dynamics' President John Jay Hopkins, who had courage to take on Convair. Only eight months ago its B60 bomber, on which it had pinned its biggest hopes for multimillion Government orders, had been turned down by the Air Force in favor of Boeing's B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). But Hopkins was making a calculated gamble on a longer-range future. Convair has the Government contract to develop an aircraft driven by atomic propulsion. Since Hopkins' own company already has the Navy's contract to build its two atomic submarines, the merger, in effect, made Hopkins...
...Skyrocket, a swept-wing Skystreak. The Skyrocket was powered by a rocket engine with 6,000 lbs. of thrust when it set new altitude and speed records on Aug. 15, 1949. Lugged aloft by a Superfortress, the Skyrocket climbed to 79,494 ft. and screamed over Edwards Air Force Base at 1,238 m.p.h...
...years that their patient had hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure; the signs show over a long period and are unmistakable. There was not much they could do about it, except to warn him against overexertion and overexcitement. A few recently discovered drugs such as hexamethonium (TIME, Aug. 4) and Apresoline give some patients a degree of temporary relief, but that...