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BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. The 14th National Print Exhibition shows 165 examples, selected from 2,000 entries, of what U.S. printmakers have pursued during the past year. Through Aug...
With one sweeping decree on Aug. 6, 1960, Fidel Castro expropriated Cuban enterprises that were wholly or largely owned by U.S. citizens. On that very day, in the port of Santa Maria, a ship was being loaded with sugar that had been produced by one of the expropriated companies, Compania Azucarera de Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, otherwise known as C.A.V. That white cargo set off on a four-year cruise through the U.S. courts...
Landerman, who went to the Soviet Union last summer as a member of a student tourist group, is now the only American imprisoned in the USSR. He was arrested Aug. 15 after a Volkswagen but he was driving struck and killed a Soviet citizen near Minsk...
...feel like a champ," said onetime University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts, after an Atlanta jury awarded him $3,060,000. He had reason: it was one of the biggest libel judgments in U.S. legal history (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week in Atlanta, the same federal district judge who presided over Butts's suit against the Saturday Evening Post pared the judgment to something less than championship size. Holding that the original award was "grossly excessive," Judge Lewis R. Morgan ordered it reduced...
Flown to Tinian on Aug. 5, 1945, to ride over Hiroshima with the crew of the Enola Gay, Laurence was bumped off the plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...