Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet-the first in more than a year to command a clear majority in Parliament-is headed by 57-year-old Socialist Karl August Fagerholm, a former barber and longtime boss of the Finnish State Alcohol Monopoly. Scarcely had Fagerholm been sworn in when he 1) stepped up negotiations for a $50 million World Bank loan, and 2) insisted that Moscow call off the projected visit to Finland of Old Bolshevik Otto Kuusinen, Helsinki-born member of the Russian Party Presidium and father of Finnish Communist Party Leader Hertta Kuusinen. From across the Russian border that runs just 40 miles...
Paralytic polio rose ominously in August, announced the U.S. Public Health Service. Each week's total cases considerably topped those in the comparable weeks last year. In the week ending Aug. 23 there were 144 cases (43 in Michigan, mainly in Detroit), against 96 for the same week of 1957. In the week ending Aug. 30 the total fell only slightly to 126 cases, against 76 last year. Warned Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney: "The tragic fact is that many of the cases could have been prevented. Salk vaccine gives 70% to 90% protection against polio, but about...
Halper, "then early in August he suddenly turned out eleven paintings...
...display last week, Avery's sudden end-of-the-summer spurt made a glowing show. Hot Moon hung in the August sky like a ball of orange light that cast an orange sheen over the magenta sea; Sail shows a ghostly boat slipping silently through a sea of rapid blue and white strokes. "When people ask me how long it took," Avery explained. "I say 30 years. That's how long the preparation took...
Died. Georges Lecompte, 91, august, white-bearded permanent secretary of the august 40-member French Academy, playwright (La Meule, Mirages), novelist (L'Espoir, Servitude Amoureuse), historian (Espagne), art critic (L'Art Impressioniste); in Paris...