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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestselling Novelist Vladimir (Lolita) Nabokov, "they held Boris Pasternak's funeral outside Moscow. Though the newspapers printed no word of it. 1,500 people came [TIME, June 13]. Though nothing of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago has ever been published in Russia, a single unknown young person stepped forward and began reciting a poem from Zhivago called 'Hamlet.' As he recited, voice after voice joined in until it seemed the whole crowd was reciting together." With that, Nabokov wound up the conference by reading the poem, which might have been written for West Berlin's brooding...
...jury brought in a 134-count information for false advertising and conspiracy against Regimen's manufacturer, 48-year-old Mail-Order Medicine Man John Andre (real name: John Andreadis). Also cited was Regimen's advertising agency, Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc. District Attorney Hogan charged that, unknown to the public, four of-the TV performers were on rigid diets, that many took dehydration drugs and medical treatments to lose weight quickly, and that at least one required treatment for malnutrition at the end of the course...
...Tibetans, including many monks, to work as slave laborers building a new 1,500-mile railroad from China's Tsinghai province to Lhasa. Even with the present poor communications, Chinese settlers are already being moved in to take over Tibetan lands, and Tibetans are shipped away to points unknown to change the racial complexion of the people. But other thousands have fled into the mountains, where Chinese planes last week were powerless to strafe them out. Said one Tibetan traveler: "The Chinese will have to demolish our mountains to be free...
...ahead of the re-entry body would be a high-pressure air layer reaching up to 15,000° F.-about 1½ times as hot as the sun's surface. But beyond that, the physical properties of air at such speeds and temperatures were almost entirely unknown, and no existing wind tunnel was fast enough to furnish the necessary data. Kantrowitz' shock tube supplied crucial answers...
...highest civilian honors: the Distinguished Civilian Service Award. For Peter King, 49, now associate director of research for materials at the Navy's Washington, D.C. research laboratories, the medal had been a long while in coming: it was granted for a dramatic but generally unknown service performed eleven years...