Word: pompeii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). "On-the-spot" newsmen "cover" The Last Days of Pompeii...
...enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...
...restorations to house some of the Big Three staffs. The white stone palace where President Roosevelt stayed was built in 1911 for the last of the Romanovs. But the smaller of the estate's two palaces, the gardens themselves and the famed Fountain of the Nymph-smuggled from Pompeii in 1834 -are pretty much as they were when Mark Twain saw them, clustered in the shadow of the great Ai-Dagh (Holy Mount...
...Classical remains suffered less damage than was feared. Chief loss was the contents of the latest excavations at Pompeii...
...reached North Africa in May 1943, saw action on May 24, was hospitalized in August and September, made 21 combat jumps (the 21st on the day he left the hospital), was decorated, and wrote: "Over here in Italy it is very pretty. . . . There are many old historic places like Pompeii, etc. . . . But even with all this, I'd give anything to plant my feet on some U.S. dirt again...