Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Germany's Eighth Party Congress got under way one morning last week, the 9 a.m. newscast from East Berlin reported that Walter Ulbricht was at that moment delivering the first address. In fact, Ulbricht was nowhere in sight. In a last-minute turnabout, a stand-in had been called on to read the speech for the man who symbolized East Germany for a quarter century and was replaced only last month as Communist Party chief by Erich Honecker. A half hour later, the East Germans somewhat lamely announced that Ulbricht was ill. Oddly enough, he had looked spry...
...name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de Pompadour, Nell Gwyn and the Du Barry. How did she manage to catch der Führer's eye and remain with him until their joint suicide in the Berlin Reich chancellery? Photographs from Eva Braun's personal album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding a motorcycle, mugging in Bavarian costume, petting dogs and stiffly modeling a slinky gown. In the same issue...
ALTHOUGH his father was a professor in international law and his uncle was a distinguished chemist, Kistiakowsky was just a high school dropout who never even started his senior year. He enrolled in the University of Berlin, and in the confusion of post-war university regulations, he was able to complete both college and graduate work in three and one-half years. So he ended up with...
...Salinger tells it, Seattle Television Executive Elroy McCaw (who died in 1969) arrived in Washington to attend a Pentagon meeting of a volunteer citizens' advisory group of which he was a member. The meeting was canceled because the Berlin crisis was hot and the top military chiefs were attending an NSC meeting at the White House. Unaware of this, McCaw called Air Force General Curtis LeMay's office and was directed by a confused secretary to the meeting at the White House. According to Salinger, Brigadier General Chester ("Ted") Clifton, President Kennedy's military aide, escorted McCaw...
...rude, crowded, expensive, unpleasant and even dangerous. Aside from the Communists and some Arab delegates who talk of moving to a more "neutral" country, those who would bail out want primarily to live in a less troubled place. Their preferences, in order: Geneva, San Francisco, Rome and even West Berlin. The stayers claim to like New York's cultural life and its unparalleled communications. One diplomat sighed, "We are just stuck here." That seemed to express a common worry: if the U.N. were to move away, the U.S.-which still picks up 31% of the organization...