Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with Der Dicke's face on the posters, the voters gave Willy Brandt's rival Social Democrats an overall gain of nearly 5%. In West Germany's populous industrial Rhine River heartland, the Socialists won absolute majorities in 24 of the 38 major cities-including Konrad Adenauer's traditionally safe bastion of Cologne...
...C.D.U. has been given something to think about." In the thinking of most of the party's top politicians, it had to do with the wavering image of West German leadership-largely because of the transition from old Konrad Adenauer's autocratic rule to Der Dicke's noticeably milder administrative manner. "I can't mend what they smash in Bonn," mourned one losing pro-government candidate last week. Added a high party functionary: "We have had a warning that we must produce some forceful leadership...
...famed Heifetz creamy tone and the Piatigorsky sonority were a sensuous delight. In the second of the three-concert series, they chose a program of Beethoven, Kodaly and Dvorak, and with the outstanding assistance of Pianist Jacob Lateiner they produced an evening of chamber music that was a won der of clarity, control and immense warmth. Not many modern instrumentalists, in fact, could play a program tinged with anything so remarkably like schmaltz-and so triumphantly carry...
...racks, but not far away are line-for-line copies of Paris haute couture and originals by young European designers. Mrs. Macy likes foreign merchandise in general: sales of imported goods are up 30%. This month, Macy's will introduce'a new line of Mies van der Rohe furniture, the first time it has been available in stores...
...English was "guilty." In 1937 she dismayed her Socialist friends by joining the Communist Party, and her activity in strikes from coast to coast landed her in jail a dozen times. She began her longest prison term in 1955 when she was convicted with other U.S. Communist leaders un der the Smith Act on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the government and spent 28 months at the Women's Federal Reformatory at Alderson, W. Va. By then, Elizabeth was no longer a slim and fiery girl but a plump and matronly woman. Freed in 1957, she said...