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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jane Mixer, 23, who was shot last March, was the only girl not sexually molested, mutilated or left nude. The other victims* were subjected to intense brutality; most were raped, stripped and tortured. One girl was found with several fingers, her feet and part of one forearm severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Rainy Day Murders | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...dangerous moment with tense immediacy. The movies were so clear and sharp that they allowed scientists to pinpoint the landing area precisely. And with the exact coordinates to guide them, astronomers at California's Lick Observatory were finally able to bounce a laser beam off the reflecting mirror left behind by the astronauts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: THE EMERGING FACE OF THE MOON | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...many of the lunar samples. The minerals that they have already identified include feldspar and olivine-both found on earth. Other information came by radio from the lunar surface itself. Despite fears that the intense heat of the two-week lunar day might ruin its intricate mechanism, the seismometer left behind at Tranquillity Base continued to function, recording more than two dozen "seismic events." Some of the tracings seemed remarkably like shocks recorded during quakes on earth. Other signals pointed to the possibility of lunar landslides, set off in crater walls by the dramatic temperature changes that range from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: THE EMERGING FACE OF THE MOON | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Repressive Climate. Kuznetsov is the most important literary figure to defect from the Soviet Union since the end of World War II and the best known personality within Russia to flee since Svetlana Stalin left in 1967 and wrote her recollections in Twenty Letters to a Friend. Along with Yuri Kazakov and Vasily Aksenov, he ranks as one of the most widely read authors in Russia. Noted for his sparse, evocative style, he has written numerous short stories and four novels. His 1966 documentary novel, Babi Yar, which recounts the Nazi massacre of thousands of Russian Jews outside the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A SOVIET AUTHOR'S FLIGHT TO THE FREE WORD | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...agent who was supposed to keep an eye on him. During the first four days, Kuznetsov behaved like a model Communist. On the fifth evening, during a tourist's stroll through Soho's lurid strip joints, Kuznetsov said that he wanted to find a prostitute. Andjapazidze discreetly left his companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A SOVIET AUTHOR'S FLIGHT TO THE FREE WORD | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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