Word: bern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...
...support of states rights and segregation, took pride in blocking education and labor legislation ("I never knew the Republic to be endangered by a bill that was not passed," he once said), notably in 1956 when he killed a $1.6 billion school construction bill; of cancer; in New Bern...
...Boss," as he is known to his employees, spends ten or more hours a day in his Frankfurt office, decides everything down to the price of a handkerchief. Just about his only diversion is horseback riding, which he does so well that he won the world dressage championship in Bern last summer. Although the firm's shares are sold publicly-and will be listed this week on German stock exchanges-Neckermann and his family own 51.8% of the stock, and there are no other big shareholders...
Easy Start. Dulles passes no moral judgment on SS General Wolff, agreeing with the assessment of Gero Gaever-nitz, one of Dulles' aides in Bern: "Wolff began to see the light in 1943, and tried not to extricate himself but to extricate the nation out of its tragic situation." Wolff's fellow Germans were more severe: in 1964 a court sentenced him to 15 years for being "continuously engaged and deeply entangled in guilt...
...diplomats have put aside Western suits for Mao-type tunics. The wife of the ambassador to Morocco has just returned from Peking with the new look for diplomats' wives - short bobbed hair and pantaloons. Embassy libraries have been stripped of non-Mao books. The Red Chinese embassy in Bern has put away such art treasures as the horse statuette from the Tang period, which once was proudly shown to Swiss visitors as a masterpiece of Chinese culture. In the trade exposition in Algiers, guests now are confronted with patriotic placards: "Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This...