Word: bers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly...
...state of Madhya Pradesh last week that 36 members of the state's ruling Congress Party had defected to her opposition United Front Party. That gave the Rajmata, who is 47 and as tough a politician as they come, a clear majority in the 296-mem-ber state legislature. Flabbergasted, the governor suspended the legislature indefinitely, a move that could either open the way to new elections or lead to an invitation to the Rajmata herself to form a new government...
...President canceled minor appointments, put the White House Situation Room on special alert, and went before television cameras with a som ber, seven-minute statement. "The purported closing of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping has brought a new and grave dimension to the crisis," said Johnson. "The U.S. considers the gulf to be an international waterway and feels that a blockade of Israeli shipping is illegal and potentially disastrous...
economy did during four years of Depression in the '30s. Since last Decem ber, when tightening money began to choke off housing's flow of mortgage funds, the annual rate of home and apartment starts has dropped more than 50%, to a 20-year low. In the latest count, in October, private-housing starts were scraping along at a mere 848,000 a year. At that pace, the prosperous...
...action will appeal to youngsters most of all. The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets. The "Coliseum" num ber is even more savage. It opens with a gladiator whipping a half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full...