Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...municipal elections held at the darkest hour of the Berlin blockade in 1948, West Berliners showed their defiance of the Reds by giving their beloved mayor, Ernst Reuter, a record 64.5% of the popular vote. Communism's Wall has done nothing to reduce their solidarity. Last week, urged on by posters that warned "Whoever stays at home votes for the Wall," 90% of eligible West Berliners trudged through foggy, snowy streets to give able Mayor Willy Brandt, Reuter's protégé, a landslide victory for another term in office. Brandt's Socialists got almost...
...same time, the book has been praised by several eminent men. Ernst Mayr, Louis Aggasiz Professor of Zoology, has called the book a "milestone" of anthropological investigation. Professors George Gaylord Simpson and William W. Howells, although more reserved in their approval, have also received the book favorably...
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...Russian Painter Robert Falk in 1922, which Art Critic Khrushchev had derided, Ehrenburg said: "You and I, Nikita Sergeevich, are getting on and haven't got much time left. But Falk's painting will live as long as there are lovers of beauty." Next, Abstract Sculptor Ernst Neizvesnty, whose work also had been attacked by Nikita, took the floor. "You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said, "but it has the warm admiration of such eminent Soviet scientists as Kapitsa and Landau." Retorted Khrushchev scornfully: "That's not why we admire Kapitsa and Landau...
...Franciscus den Hollander, former boss of the Dutch railroads, took over. In the first 24 hours of Den Hollander's regime, three longtime executive vice-presidents resigned. The KLM board is expected to go outside the company to find a new president, but with the example of able Ernst van der Beugel fresh in everyone's mind, the search might prove hard...