Word: becks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that he tricked Britain into the foolish defense pact that started World...
...Washington jury was more concerned with Scarbeck's confessions, found him guilty of passing classified information to Polish agents. Scarbeck's wife stayed loyal: "I plan to stick by him." Sentencing was deferred, but Karen Scar-beck's wait may be ten years long...
...last week, Irvin Chambers Scar-beck, 41, a second secretary in the U.S. embassy in Poland, had learned that it wasn't a joke after all. Scarbeck. a mild-mannered married man and the father of four children, had fallen into one of the weariest of Communist traps and, in consequence, was picked up by the FBI and charged with passing secret information to Communists...
...takes over at Fruehauf from Roy A. Fruehauf, 52, whose family founded the firm. Eased out as Fruehauf Trailer's chief executive 18 months ago, Roy Fruehauf must face a recently revived indictment accusing him of making an illegal $200,000 loan to ex-Teamster Union Boss Dave Beck...
...employed in U.S.A. Slices of fictional personal histories are wedged between slabs of headlines and impressionistic biographic profiles of real-life movers and shapers. Instead of U.S.A.'s sardonic portraits of such tycoons as Carnegie, Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst, there are acid sketches of Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Harry Bridges. Dos Passos' own fictional characters are manikins, but they acquire a certain animation and excitement by being placed on the revolving stage of 20th century social and intellectual history...