Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that moment Sam was just a pensioned pumper driver from the Bayonne (N.J.) fire department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...
...counterpart all over West Germany. Loudest advocate of a deal with the Russians is burly, demagogic August Hausleiter, a leading Bavarian Christian Democrat, who has just founded Germany's newest political movement, the nationalist "German Union." Hausleiter and his friends call for a "neutralization" of Germany between East and West, evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile on Max Reimann...
...such as they are-a reasonably strong government that can command some respect and get things done. To move in that direction the Bonn Assembly must succeed; it must establish a West German state presently integrated with Western Europe and looking toward reunion with Eastern Germany in a Europe-East and West-that is free...
...spite of Russian propaganda, the Pact is a purely defensive alliance. The hope for peace through the Pact comes from the promise that it will stabilize the European political scene. The Pact draws a clear line between East and West. Each side knows that crossing that line will bring would disaster. Antagonism, may, therefore, lose its value, and the door to cooperation through the UN can be opened. The Pact is the means to this end, and the end must never be forgotten in a struggle to strengthen the means...
...partners call him, plays up to 36 holes a day, usually shooting in the low 80s. In the summers the Trippes take their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension. In winter the whole family occasionally goes skiing in a body...