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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The knowing eye of Director Vittoria De Sica scans Italy's greatest natural wonder, Sophia Loren, whose Vesuvian warmth bubbles through this three-part comedy co-starring the ubiquitous Mastroianni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: may 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Sometimes I wonder just how lucky we American people can be to have such a splendid man as Mr. Johnson holding the reins of government in steady hands at this awesome time. I'm of the rank-and-file but feel we should all be united in one thing-prayer for his continued health. (MRS.) CAROLINE C. JOHNSON San Jose, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

What Balanchine wants is so much his private ideal that many of the ballet's best friends wonder if it can long outlive him. Ballet is an art that resides almost totally in the minds of its choreographers; since it resists notation, it cannot be passed along easily from one director to another. But even if the company fails to survive its master, the esthetic principle he has made it stand for certainly will: that there is only one thing of value in the dance, and that is the simple beauty of the body in motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Jewel in Its Proper Setting | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

Died. Gerhard Domagk, 68, German chemist who in 1932 discovered that sulfonamides cured infection, thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil-an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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