Word: branching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pros blow off steam. Postponing decisions until the week before the Bundestag convened on Oct. 20 to re-elect him Chancellor, he took off for a holiday by the Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany's best friend is the U.S. (Strauss is inclined to think...
...both serve the same basic purpose for their governments: to act as foreign exchange centers and to provide loans and services for overseas Chinese. For the Communists, the bank is widely believed to serve yet another purpose: espionage. Malaysia last year ordered the Chinese Communists to close their Singapore branch because of subversive activities, and the branch was saved only when Singapore withdrew from the Malaysian Federation. Even so, Singapore has so far refused Peking's request to send in a new bank manager...
Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
...espionage here appears as an unromantic, ethically dubious business, transcated by people of limited talent and honesty. A vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something...
...system. World War I flattened the company, and it was just recovering when the Bolsheviks grabbed 600 of its cars in Russia. It prospered in the '20s and '30s, then in World War II lost 25% of its rolling stock. Later, Nasser confiscated the company's branch in Egypt. Says Andre Widhoff, 62, Wagons-Lits director-general: "Every morning when I wake up, I look at the newspaper and wonder: What has happened...