Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to a recent poll, only 6% of West Germans said they would vote for another leader like him. On the all-time list of effective German statesmen, he is steadily slipping. In 1950, Bismarck topped the list with 35% of the votes, and Hitler received 10%. Three years ago, in the last such sampling, Konrad Adenauer received 60% and Hitler, with 2%, barely edged out Frederick the Great...
...Karl Schiller was pursuing a business Ostpolitik. Unlike Brandt's diplomacy, which is still in the negotiating stage, it has already produced a solid success. Last week in the Krupp company town of Essen, Schiller and Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev toasted each other with Kupferberg Furst Bismarck champagne after signing what may be the biggest trade deal ever between the U.S.S.R. and a Western nation...
...According to Johnny Horton, what British ship did the Bismarck sink...
...conductor of the Super Chiefs is Coach Hank Stram, a spry, spruce little fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 205 Ibs.) who looks like a Cheshire cat, dresses like Cecil Beaton, talks like Otto von Bismarck and operates like Jimmy Valentine. "Every team," he says, "should have its own style that reflects the personality of the coach." The Kansas City Chiefs are a mirror image of both sides of Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince...
...since the Bismarck has there been such a sea hunt. In the teeth of a gale that whipped the azure Mediterranean into an ash-gray cauldron of 20-foot waves, five Israeli-manned gunboats scooted to Haifa last week on a 3,000-mile dash from the northern French port of Cherbourg. At various points, they were tracked by French reconnaissance planes, an R.A.F. Canberra from Malta, Soviet tankers, the radar forests of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, television cameramen and even Italian fishermen. From a distance, the world watched with emotions ranging from amusement to outrage. In a twist...