Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mysteriously turned up at a church office building in Salt Lake City, making bequests to the Mormons, various worthy institutions and a gas-station attendant, Melvin Dummar. It also named Hughes' estranged aide Noah Dietrich as executor. Trial on the authenticity of the will is scheduled to begin Aug. 15 in Las Vegas, and Dietrich has retained lawyers in Los Angeles and Houston to handle the case...
...that Germany declared war on France, Aug. 3, 1914, was also the day that the first ocean-going ship-the cement carrier Cristobal-passed through the newly built Panama Canal. The coincidence provides one of those Janus dates of history: the canal reflecting the 19th century's unambiguous energies, organizational drive and technological genius, and World War I inaugurating a century in which those forces would...
...rebel: American per capita consumption last year was less than 95 lbs., down 8½ lbs. from 1973. At the same time, growers, enticed by the high prices, overplanted, and are now turning out more sugar than anyone wants to buy. World production in the crop year ending Aug. 31 is forecast to be 87.7 million tons, or 4.4 million tons more than the expected demand...
...series had by no means been an assured commercial success from the start. It represented a bold gamble by Frost. He had been in Australia when Nixon left the White House on Aug. 9, 1974?and he immediately decided to try to pin the fading ex-President down to a TV contract. To Frost, Nixon's "likely unavailability" was a challenge; it was "the appeal of the impossible" that lured him. He telephoned an offer from Australia. For nearly a year, Nixon showed no interest...
Into a Van. Kelly, who had performed about 70 similar missions in the past, seized Merylee at a shopping center last Aug. 5, forced her into a van and took her to a motel. There he began the increasingly common ritual known as deprogramming, in which the convert to some strange-sounding, all-encompassing religion is subjected to threats and arguments until he gives up his new faith. After five days of this, Merylee pretended to accept Kelly's arguments, was released, got back to the Hare Krishna temple in Manhattan and charged Kelly and her mother with kidnaping...