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...Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will open in Santa Fe--the first museum dedicated to the artist, whose paintings of flowers and bleached skulls have become as emblematic of New Mexico as Edward Hopper's urban loners are of New York City. Also in Santa Fe, from June 3 through Aug. 16, is Santa Fe Stages: the International Theater Festival, for which the city will be host to everything from Canadian avant-gardists (a brochure warns of "brief nudity") to a women-in-drag version of Sherlock Holmes from Britain. Devotees of more traditional performing arts may want to venture north...
...King is dead, but the parties live on. Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, and now, 20 years later, it seems like every institution in Memphis, Tenn., from Graceland to Presley's old karate school, is playing host to memorial events. Some 50,000 fans are expected to descend on the city for Elvis Week, including a sizable number of fan-club presidents, for whom special events are planned...
...MITCHELL Attorney WILSON 183 Confirmed PALMER* General Aug...
TIME first wrote about Marshall Applewhite and his group in 1975. Four years later the magazine interviewed Paul Groll, a follower of Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then known as Bo and Peep), for a story in the Aug. 27, 1979, issue on their secret camp. An excerpt...
...date upon which to terminate my role as independent counsel," Starr said, reading from a prepared statement. "I made a mistake," he told reporters afterward. "Setting an arbitrary date was unwise and incorrect. . .an unwise judgment on my part." Starr's announcement Monday that he would be stepping down Aug. 1 to become dean of two graduate schools at Pepperdine University had drawn a chorus of boos from Republicans and happy hoots from the White House, while also prompting rampant speculation that Starr's investigation, which cost millions and prompted Senate hearings last year, had finally run out of steam...