Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlarged prostate gland. The 45-minute operation, performed by a team of six doctors headed by Italy's renowned surgeon, Professor Pietro Valdoni, 67, took place in an up-to-date operating theater installed last month in the Vatican. The first major surgery ever performed on a Pope "went excellently," said the Vatican, and the Pope should be up and about in two weeks...
...prize for physics went to Hans Albrecht Bethe, 61, mainly for discoveries during the 1930s concerning the energy production of stars. A German-born scientist who fled the rising Third Reich and who has been teaching at Cornell University since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy emitted by stars results from two protracted nuclear processes during which hydrogen fuses into helium. Similar research placed Bethe in the front rank of atomic-era scientists such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer who gave birth to the Abomb...
...from both hotel and Auditorium began falling off. When Utility Magnate Samuel Insull decided to build a new opera house as a showcase for his actress wife and persuaded the Chicago Civic Opera to relocate with him, the Auditorium's days seemed numbered. In 1941, the final curtain went down on a production of Hellzapoppin. During World War II, the empty hall was turned over to the U.S.O.; hot-dog stands and coffee bars were set up, and seats were ripped out to make room for bowling alleys. Only a decision by the newly founded Roosevelt University to take...
Later, Presbyterian Blake admitted that "I went to Wittenberg on a church invitation, and I was shocked at the restrictions." For all that, Blake was encouraged by the willingness of a Marxist state to commemorate Luther in its own way, even in the dubious guise of a precursor of the proletarian revolution, and by the mere fact that East Germany's much-beleaguered Protestants were able to hold commemoration services at all. "The thing that needs to be understood in the U.S.," Blake said, "is that the church exists and lives in East Germany...
...result, by a 2-to-l ruling, Kentucky's vagrancy statute was declared null and void because of vagueness. Louisville's loitering and disorderly-conduct ordinances went down on the same ground. An ordinance requiring permits for parades was found to contain no standards to guide the licensing authorities. A state law against criminal syndicalism included a ban on counseling an unlawful method to accomplish a political end; this, said the court, violated the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee. And since the state conspiracy law could be read to outlaw "such functions as peaceable assembly...