Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment that Israeli agents in Argentina flashed home the coded message 19 months ago, "The beast is in chains," there has been no doubt over the verdict in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Last week, as a chill rain fell on the deserted streets outside Jerusalem's Beit Haam (House of the People), the three Israeli judges returned to the courtroom in which, for four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau...
...Communists-like Adolf Hitler-have a nasty way of telling exactly what they plan to do and then doing it. As concerns the U.S., they have from the beginning said that they would force the capitalistic countries to "spend themselves to destruction." This we are doing beautifully from within. They also conquer by infiltration-especially through capturing the minds of our youth with ideas that seem highly idealistic on the surface but are pure poison underneath. Have you talked with high school and college students on this subject lately? I have-and felt the hair rise on my neck...
...Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift) above his portentous title-four of them are grossly miscast, but the customers won't realize that until too late. And he has shrewdly timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller at that...
...WILLEM Adolf Visser 't Hooft is to the World Council of Churches about what Dag Hammarskjold was to the U.N. As the Council's General Secretary, he builds church unity by accenting common beliefs, by deprecating differences, by shunning extravagant or unripe measures. Yet a quiet faith that all Christians, including Roman Catholics, must eventually unite gives his life a clear direction. It is a just barely permissible joke among his closest friends to call Visser 't Hooft "the Protestant Pope." He replies with a wintry "I'm not infallible"-which is a rueful recognition that...
...Bekesy will officially receive his award from King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden during the formal ceremonies at the Stockholm Concert Hall...