Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue that last week intensified the growing strain between Bonn and London (see below). Other likely topics: Berlin and the possibility of Franco-German military cooperation outside the framework of NATO. However, many diplomats in both countries breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that De Gaulle and der Alte will have only four hours together for formal talks. Hopefully, officials believe that the two leaders will be too busy patching up old Franco-German quarrels to open any new rifts in the Western alliance...
...make himself look older, 2) confuse his creditors, and 3) camouflage himself from the first of his five wives-to say nothing of the several other girls he was leaving behind. Stolz was bitten by the composing bug while he was conductor of Vienna's Theater-an-der-Wien, wrote some of his first real hits while serving as an army clerk in World War I. Among them: Lang, lang ist's her (700 performances), Madel küss mich (750). Sperrsechserl (a phenomenal 2,600 performances beginning...
...Accusations. Though almost all of Bonn's aid is in the form of loans, not grants, some Germans have inevitably been growling about giveaways. The newsmagazine Der Spiegel ran a series of articles arguing that West Germany is an underdeveloped nation. A German diplomat, echoing complaints in the U.S. about misspent funds that American aid officials have heard since the days of the Marshall Plan, pointed to the $30,000, custom-built Rolls-Royce in which...
...Those who think the Saskatchewan doctors [July 13] wrong in striking are those who think that, in the final analysis, the doctor has no right to determine the conditions un der which he will practice medicine...
...most damaging blow was an accusation last January, printed in the news magazine Der Spiegel, that Strauss had profited from a get-rich-quick construction outfit named Fibag (for Finanzbau A.G.), which hoped to parlay $125,000 into $22 million on contracts to build housing for U.S. military personnel. A special Bundestag commission cleared Strauss of any dishonesty, but questioned his prudence in having written letters supporting promoters of the scheme. In his time of troubles. Christian Democratic Party leaders, who have little affection for the burly, baroque Bavarian, were notably restrained in backing him. "I've worked...