Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georges Hotel, grande dame of the district, will probably have to be razed and rebuilt. The light industries, such as clothing, foodstuffs and plastics, that ringed Beirut have also been shattered. In Mekalles alone, 30 factories were destroyed in the battle over the Tel Zaatar refugee camp (TIME, Aug...
Simone Weil died Aug. 24, 1943, in a Middlesex, England, hospital. The death certificate satisfied the requirements of science: "myocardial degeneration of the heart muscles due to starvation and pulmonary tuberculosis." The needs of the law were fulfilled at the official inquiry: "The deceased did kill and slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed." Neither statement could satisfy those who knew Simone Weil as a philosopher, teacher, factory worker, soldier, writer and friend. Her mind was not a scale to be tipped between sanity and insanity but a fixed crystal that gathered every...
...Pollak, 65, a Polish-born Jew who is now a New York hotel electrician, vividly remembers those horrible events of Aug. 27, 1941. Pollak ran from the scene and managed to escape the massacre that befell his family and their Jewish neighbors in the East Galician town of Urice. For years he lived alone with his nightmare, but now it is known to millions of Dutch citizens-as is their fellow countryman, Millionaire Art Collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten, 77. Last week Dutch and Swiss police finally cornered the fleeing Menten and his wife in a hotel near Zurich. Found...
...Aug. 20. Editor says the movie is too long. He says we could save 20 minutes by cutting out most of Cornelia's nude scenes. He also says we should dub her voice. Cornelia would never go for that...
...addition, the voters turned out Physician William Davis as school board chairman. Superintendent Robert Work finally came up with a surprise: he mysteriously discovered that a $200,000 bill due the state for unemployment insurance did not have to be paid until next Aug. 31, thus providing enough ready cash to reopen the schools until yet another budget vote can be held...