Word: aug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space craft was launched Aug. 17 from Cape Canaveral. It took 109 days for the craft to come within the required 21,000 miles of Venus, where it recorded data for 40 minutes...
...first probe, sent up a few weeks, prior to Aug. 27, was a failure and had to be destroyed after launching...
...soloists. There were first violins doing their act-all kinds of virtuosos performing. Now we have arrived at an age which has a real conductor and an ensemble following his baton." PULLING together the story for De Gaulle's seventh appearance on the cover (the first was Aug. 4, 1941), TIME'S Paris bureau deployed a staff of correspondents over ground they know well. Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast and Correspondent Judson Gooding concentrated on French politics and De Gaulle the man. Israel Shenker dealt with the French economic picture, Godfrey Blunden with the feeling and spirit of France...
...half-century of political maneuvering, der Alte has learned what it takes to survive. Last week he squeaked through again-with a plan that probably will sacrifice his brawny, brawling Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss, the man widely blamed for organizing the clumsy crackdown on Aug-stein's magazine...
...Guess." O'Hara does his best churl thrashing in his prefaces. The churls denounced in the introduction to the author's Five Plays (TiME. Aug. 18, 1961) were, naturally enough, the producers and directors who conspired to keep the plays off Broadway. But O'Hara's customary target is, of course, the book reviewer. His attitude toward reviewers is, more or less, that he has spent 40 years learning how to write, and that if they do not approve of the results, they should feel perfectly free to go drown themselves...