Word: vera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Isaac Stern, 39, Russian-born violinist, and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 32: a second child, first boy; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
TIME WALKED, by Vera Panovo. Russian Author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old-and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten...
Howling in from the Pacific, Typhoon Vera last week smashed Japan with winds up to 135 m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River...
...Died. Vera von Schuschnigg, 55, gracious, musical Viennese beauty who married Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg by proxy (1938) when he was held incommunicado by the invading Nazis, followed him from one concentration camp to another, until both were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, came to the U.S., where the ex-Chancellor is now professor of government at St. Louis University; of cancer; in Kirkwood...
Crashing Bore. In El Centro, Calif., convicted of hit-and-run driving, Luz Vera explained why he did not stop his car: "I didn't know anyone in the other...