Word: aug
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When the atomic age dawned in July 1945 on the New Mexican desert, William L. Laurence of the New York Times was the only reporter there-although security prevented him from printing a word for a month. On Aug. 9, 1945, he rode with the B-29 bomber that obliterated Nagasaki. He once talked Harry Truman into sending a clandestine Government expedition to Africa, in quest of a rare plant from which cortisone could be produced. Leading scientists were more than his informants; they were also his friends, who respected his ability to translate the labyrinthine mysteries of their profession...
...four were indicted by a grand jury last week in the assault charge, a felony punishable by a maximum of ten years in prison. They also face charges for participating in rioting which allegedly followed a civil rights demonstration in Americus Aug...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club is considering the endowment of an annual lecture in honor of William E. B. DuBois '90, famous historian and the first Negro to receive a Ph.D. from the University. DuBois died a Ghanaian citizen last Aug. 27 in Accra...
...sugar growers, Paiewonsky is urging the federally run Virgin Islands Corp. to close the islands' one creaky sugar mill. "Vicorp" itself is negotiating a long-term lease of 1,700 acres of government-owned and money-losing sugar fields to Big Industrialist Daniel K. Ludwig (TIME, Aug. 2). Ludwig intends to raise citrus for frozen juice then blend one part Virgin Islands juice with nine parts of juice from his plantations in Panama; the higher cost of juice from the islands, plus the cost of canning it, would add up to 50% of the total and enable the mixed...
Thomas W. Molyneux '65 has been indicted along with 13 other youths for causing more than $3000 damage at a Long Island debutante party last Aug...