Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Aug. 11 Faubus story is extremely insulting. Violence Southward, try as you will to magnify it, is a mere sniff of the ugly physical revulsion, anarchy and race violence exploding in your own backyard (Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York City, Detroit...
...Zybina and Tamara Tyshkevich, miffed at losing the U.S.S.R. championship to a comparative newcomer, refused to accept their second-and third-prize medals by her side, they were stripped of their right ever to receive the medals, and the elder Zybina was barred from the trip to Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 18). Also barred was Nina Ponoma-reva, the hefty discus thrower who was caught shoplifting in London two years ago. A sort of Maria Callas in a track suit, Nina had made her outbursts of temperament famous. She was accused of being "egotistical and uncomradely." All this was part...
...changes to suggest. On controversial Article XIV, it proposed that the Constitutional Council pass on the President of France's right to assume dictatorial powers whenever, in his judgment, national security was gravely threatened. The parliamentary commission also thought too harsh De Gaulle's implied ruling (TIME, Aug. 18) that any overseas territory casting a majority vote against the new constitution in next month's referendum would be considered to have voted itself clean out of the French Union. Instead, they proposed that, in such a case, the territorial assembly be allowed to decide whether...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME, Aug...
This important new novel, second of a projected group of four, carries forward perhaps the most exhaustive study of love since Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. In the first volume, Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957), Author Durrell, 46, brilliantly evoked the city of Alexandria, which has festered for 2,000 years between the sun-sparkling Mediterranean and the Egyptian desert. Balthazar covers the same terrain and time span as the first. It is as if the reader were making a return train journey through a landscape he had just crossed-only now he is sitting on the opposite...