Word: bers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temporary office at Lowry Air Force Base, he signed congressional bills at a furious clip (292 last week). He usually managed to get away from the office before noon and hurry to Cherry Hills Country Club for a quick lunch, a round of golf and a rub ber of bridge. As the President settled down to the Denver routine, his golf score dropped from...
...lumberjack in Oregon, paid Guy a visit and repeated his favorite philosophy: "If you don't like your job, for heaven's sake quit it since you only live once." Result: Guy took off for a year's work with his brother in lum ber camps along the Columbia River. Woods man Rowe returned to Detroit to finish art school, marry a fellow student, and make a name for himself in the New York community of free-lance artists...
...Western press attacked him when, after a visit to Communist-run Sachsenhausen, he announced that the inmates received better food and treatment than under the Nazis. But soon after his visit, 15,000 prisoners in Soviet zone concentration camps were released in an amnesty credited to Grüber; another Grüber-inspired amnesty is said to be imminent...
...Talent for Politics. Recently, Pastor Grüber was criticized-this time by his own church synod-because he appeared at an East German "National Congress," publicly condemned the presence of U.S. atomic cannon in Germany, and called for a ban on nuclear weapons, a step the Russians favor. Pastor Grüber asked the synod to accept his resignation...
When word spread through Soviet Germany that Heinrich Grüber might go, consternation welled up among the Protestants. and protest rolled in. "There must be a way to relieve Pastor Grüber of his pastoral duties without necessarily jeopardizing his position as plenipotentiary ..." Said the weekly Potsdam Kirche: "Too many people are waiting for his services ..." Last week the Evangelical Church's Bishop Otto Dibelius announced that Grüber, though he would no longer be pastor of the Marienkirche, would continue his job of go-between. Said Heinrich Grüber as he went back...