Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contender for Treasury or Defense . . . Informal but hard-driving chairman of Bendix Corp., Michigan-based conglomerate in auto parts, forest products, other fields (sales: $3 billion) . . . Age 50 . . . Born in Berlin, fled Nazis with family to China, arrived in U.S. at 21 in 1947 with $60 in pocket; worked way through University of California, making Phi Beta Kappa; got Ph.D. in economics at Princeton and taught there . . . Was U.S. negotiator in the Kennedy Round trade talks in the 1960s (said one colleague approvingly: "The Europeans thought he was too tough") . . . Other business executives say he is good at delegating authority...
They were unmistakable as they got off the Aeroflot TU-104 turbojets and into waiting Volga cars: somewhat shapeless heavy wool overcoats, dark gray felt hats and impassive faces that, to the knowing, suggest the KGB officer. Hundreds of them were flown in from Moscow to forgather in East Berlin's grim, hulking Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters of the nation's vast security-police network. Other Russian officers were dispatched to secret-police stations around the country. According to Western intelligence analysts, this activity meant that the Soviets were now directly supervising the campaign of repression...
...have reportedly been confined to lunatic asylums for expressing unorthodox opinions. Hundreds have been arrested or put under constant police surveillance. Among the most recent targets is Physicist Robert Havemann, an open critic of East Germany's Communist regime. Seized late last month at his home outside East Berlin, he is being held under stringent house arrest. Another victim is a leading East German writer, Jürgen Fuchs, who disappeared without a trace after the police kidnaped him on a busy street in broad daylight...
...book Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Debunking impressions that his interest in politics drew him to pre-World War II Germany, Isherwood reveals that he was propelled by a tip from his sometime lover and collaborator W.H. Auden about the boy bars in Berlin. Between affairs, he met Jean Ross, the prototype for his fictional Sally Bowles, and wrote of her escapades in Goodbye to Berlin. Sally turns out to be somewhat less vulnerable than portrayed by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Says Isherwood: "Sally wasn...
Wagnerian Drama. Why then are so many Americans buying yet another book on Hitler? One reason may simply be Toland's dogged thoroughness: he trails each major Nazi to the bitter end, whether it be a cyanide capsule, the scaffold or a bunker in burning Berlin. There may even be some appeal in Toland's flat American tone, which spills over into quotes translated from the German ("Come on, Stauffenberg, the Chief is waiting"). But the principal appeal of the book must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that...