Word: aug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ourselves X-ed Hitler on the Victory in Europe cover, May 7, 1945 and completed the one-two with an X-ed rising sun on the Aug. 20, 1945 cover to mark the surrender of Japan...
Strong Corroboration. To shake the Greenglass story, Sobell's lawyers attacked the Nagasaki-bomb sketch (TIME, Aug. 12) with affidavits from two ex-Manhattan Project scientists. Both scorned the sketch as amateurish, inaccurate, a naive "caricature" of the bomb, which could not possibly have aided the Russians...
Carter completed the piece only a year ago, and then Lateiner, a deeply cerebral pianist (TIME, Aug. 19), worked on it doggedly for nine months. He postponed last fall's scheduled première for two months so that he could practice it some more, at one point holed up in the Steinway warehouse in Boston for six hours a day. Finally, last week Carter's concerto was given its world premiere, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony. Lateiner's homework paid off. He played with a flair and a command that are rare in such...
...warriors who are giving up the fight. Last week the Saigon government proudly presented the highest-ranking defector ever to come over to the Allied side. He was North Vietnamese Lieut. Colonel Le Xuan Chuyen, 37, a 20-year veteran of the Communist wars, who until his defection last Aug. 2 was deputy chief of staff and director of operations of the Viet Cong's 5th Division, with responsibilities equivalent to those of a U.S. brigadier general...
...such sights today in Herculaneum, writes Joseph Deiss, an amateur archaeologist and vice-director of the American Academy in Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward Pompeii, nearly all of Herculaneum...