Word: auge
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Agnew's article, entitled "Aren't Hard Hats Also Entitled to Their Views?", was published in the Aug. 15 issue of Human Events, a right-wing Washington weekly newsletter. The accompanying picture shows Agnew smiling and wearing a hard hat marked "Agnew...
...Sundays. On this particular Sunday the catch was good-a basket of squirming silver carp-and Goto suggested a drink to celebrate. Reluctantly, Miyoshi declined. He was due on the foundry night shift. The two parted, never to see each other again. At 8:15 the next morning, Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb exploded 1,870 ft. over Hiroshima...
...mankind's many tragedies that the scenario is not true. The facts, so grimly and indelibly recorded a quarter-century ago this week, are quite different. Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945: a weapon called Little Boy, right on target; at least 68,000 dead. The actual number of dead may never be known; several estimates place it higher than 200,000 (see THE WORLD). Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945: a weapon called Fat Man, over a mile off target; at least 35,000 dead. In the face of such insistent horror, the question still haunts the mind: Was Hiroshima...
...twin bombings alone, moreover, that influenced the mode and speed of the Japanese surrender. Other factors were involved, some of them impossible to measure. The Russian entry into the war on Aug. 9 surely played a role, most importantly in convincing the Japanese that they could no longer expect mediation through Moscow. Failure of imagination on the U.S. side had prolonged the war. Old Japan hands like Joseph Grew had encouraged the U.S. to declare forthrightly that Japan could keep its Emperor, but his advice was heeded only in the final days of the war. Less reliance on the Bomb...
...communications industry, or aroused such anxiety among the potential victims of change. Enthusiasts insist that video cartridges in time will radically alter the status quo in television, motion pictures, theater, music, journalism, book publishing and many other fields. Some futurists, notably Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock (TIME, Aug. 3), argue that TV cassettes will quicken the already bewildering pace of change in American life, carrying the U.S. farther away from standardization in the arts, education and cultural tastes. Many young TV makers feel that the new equipment will lead to an era in which video cameras may outstrip typewriters...