Word: aug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aug. 25, only four days after Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia, a small group of Russian dissenters in Moscow's Red Square unfurled banners that said HANDS OFF CZECHOSLOVAKIA! and SHAME ON THE INVADERS! Beaten, cursed and arrested by KGB (secret police) agents, they were charged with making a public disturbance and slandering the Soviet Union. After a three-day trial, a Moscow court two weeks ago imposed terms of exile or imprisonment on the five defendants. By banning foreign newsmen from the trial and by packing the small courtroom with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities...
When French Education Minister Edgar Faure (TIME, Aug. 23) first presented his plans for reform of the nation's universities to the De Gaulle Cabinet, Foreign Minister Michel Debre listened and remarked: "It is madness." De Gaulle replied: "If the Minister of Education were mad, it would show." Quipped Faure: "According to some, there are disturbing symptoms...
...Switzerland, Professor Paul Niehans attracts wealthy Americans and Europeans alike* with his "cellular therapy," in which embryonic cells from the organs of unborn lambs are injected (TIME, Aug. 31, 1959). Niehans is hardly in the same league with some of the practitioners cited by Dorman; he is a licensed physician with the proper credentials and an impressive personality. He carefully selects patients who are likely to respond to his treatment, which includes rest, good care and good food, and excludes liquor and tobacco. That is enough to insure that many will feel better. But there is no scientific evidence that...
...began a passionate telegram of protest that, reported the London Sunday Times in a copyrighted story last week, had been sent by Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin on Aug. 22, the day after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works...
...that falling interest rates could lead to a new burst of corporate expansion, investors bid stock prices up to a new high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...