Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neglect-in the vital matter of leaving a will. One of his personal aides, who was questioned by police in Acapulco, said that Hughes had been supposed to sign an important document, possibly a will, several days before his death, but was too ill to do so. Noah Dietrich, Hughes' former chief lieutenant, said he had seen a will, but that was back in the 1950s. Investigators began a massive dragnet search for a will, combing through Hughes' old map cases, flight bags, books and safe-deposit boxes. They looked in one box in a Hollywood Bank...
Occasionally someone will almost destroy his fragile credibility entirely by invoking well-known, and subtler, caricatures of the type he is supposed to represent. Hans, whom Eugene Buder plays with flaring nostrils and flirtatiously upturned eyes, is associated with Marlene Dietrich and Joel Grey, and although he holds his own well, they have held theirs better. Dimitri (Donald J. Campbell Jr.) resembles a wistful Zorba, but his blustery accent, unlike that of Nicholas (Gustavo B. Armagno) is not Greek and he wraps himself too earnestly in a philosophically tragical nature--especially for a Greek who yearns for a boat...
...camp commandant straddling her office chair like a grotesque Dietrich...
...Protestants, like Catholics, do sometimes distinguish between the everyday and the heroic. Despite the criticism of his authoritarian personality and his patronizing attitude toward Africans that arose even before his death, Albert Schweitzer is still commonly considered a Protestant saint. So is the Lutheran martyr to the Nazis, Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African Missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered founder John Wesley are among many cited as Protestant saints...
...specialized commissions set up by this week's Paris conference will convince most LDC leaders that some of their favorite projects would hurt instead of help them. Indexing, for example, would drive some developing countries even deeper into the hole, for they are net importers of commodities." Dietrich Kebschull, of Hamburg's HWWA Institute of Economic Research, says that manufacturers in the developed countries would add the higher cost of their raw materials to the prices of the finished products. Warns Kebschull: "The commodity price increases, which at first may have been helpful to the less developed countries...