Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Theodore Schocken, 60, president of Schocken Books, Inc.; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. A Jew, Schocken took over his father's Berlin publishing house in 1934 at the age of 19, issued a collection of Franz Kafka, including the corrosively antitotalitarian novel The Trial. Publication was soon halted by the Gestapo. Driven into exile in 1938, Schocken fought with the U.S. Army against the Nazis, later established his own publishing house in New York, bringing out translations of Kafka's once verboten works...
...government is going to have to drive the enemy far enough away to hold the airport. The airlift is essential. Forty or 50 planes a day may be puny compared with the Berlin airlift. Yet it seems to be working. If the airlift continues, Phnom-Penh will stand until the rainy season and the government will have won a respite. It will then get another chance to settle, to come up with a non-military solution...
Many of the planes stored at Tucson have a proud history, and from time to time, some have been pressed into service to meet a national crisis. During the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, scores of World War II transporters were hustled out of the desert sanctuary. Airworthy combat planes came out of moth balls at the outbreak of the Korean War, and hundreds of single-engine A1-E fighters that had served in Korea saw action again in Viet Nam. Recently the Pentagon ordered a number of troop-carrying helicopters back to the line...
...month": an $84,000 National Science Foundation grant to a University of Minnesota psychologist to study romantic love. "Not even the National Science Foundation can argue that falling in love is a science," he said, adding that the subject should be left to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Irving Berlin. Said Proxmire: "I believe that 200 million other Americans want to leave some things in life a mystery, and right at the top of things we don't want to know is why a man falls in love with a woman and vice versa. Even if they could give...
...making use of a person's expertise in a non-news situation." Wald concedes that his own network in 1962 bought interviews with the parents of the Fischer quints of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and once paid German tunnel diggers for the right to film refugees escaping from East Berlin. Says he: "I don't want to seem holier than thou...