Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused who flatly denied any connection with a Communist plot to infiltrate the U.S. Government was Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 23), he admitted knowing many of the others also named by ex-Communists Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. But he denied that he had ever been a Communist...
...Good Idea." So much for Europe's economic unity, without which Western Union must fail miserably. Last week also brought a step toward political unity which was equally important. At The Hague conference on Western Union (TIME, Aug. 2), France had proposed formation of a Western European parliament. The idea had been turned down as premature by Britain's Ernie Bevin and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. But last week France's doughty Foreign Minister Robert Schuman again went...
...hell of a girl-real zing!" Speculation on her possible marriage is widespread in Britain. Current favorite: the Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough; Sonny wears a tophat with as much éclat as his father brings to catching raspberries in his mouth (TIME, Aug...
Three months ago Maria announced that she would die on the night of the Feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15. When the day arrived, the village of San Giovanni Lupatoto was crowded with 20,000 visitors. They came afoot, on bicycles or riding two-wheeled donkey carts. As they waited for Maria's death, their own life brawled through the narrow streets. Barrels of wine flowed at the village inns. Sidewalk loafers opened up parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes...
...Knees. Even if all Munoz' strength lay in his beloved jibaros, most Puerto Rican politicos concede that he would win. But his magic also works with some middle-class intellectuals, and with the slumdwellers of San Juan's malodorous El Fanguito (TIME, Aug...