Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary from a middle-class neighborhood in Maplewood, N.J., whose father deals in real estate, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Capable of inflammatory rhetoric on an improvised platform but often disarmingly polite with his professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba earlier this year), has tutored youngsters in Harlem in his spare time...
...Make a note of the name of Nixdorf," read advertisements that have been appearing in West German news papers. By such direct promotion, a stripling in the computer field has established its own European image among such veterans as IBM, Machines Bull and Siemens. With only 700 employees in a factory in the Westphalian town of Paderborn, Nixdorf still sells two out of every three small digital computers bought in West Germany. At the annual Hannover fair, Nixdorf's first-time display became a magnet for Germans interested in business machines; of the fairgoers who visited the Nixdorf booth...
...million involved, Ling will borrow $100 million from a syndicate of U.S., Canadian and European financial institutions with Wall Street's Lehman Bros, and Goldman, Sachs acting as bankers. Another $200 million is on hand as ready cash, including $60 million from a public sale of 600,000 shares of LTV stock last fall. LTV will raise the rest of the necessary money by selling off its interest in two insurance companies, Stonewall...
Portnoy recalls her with emotions that are swollen with love and loathing. He remembers her seductive tones during his toilet training and ponders the absurdity that such a memory could help mold his character. He relates the telephone conversation he had with her after returning from his European vacation: "Well, how's my lover?" she asked, as his father listened on an extension. "And it never occurs to her," says Portnoy, "if I'm her lover, who is he, the shmegeggy she lives with...
...fork of "liberalization" that is jabbing all of Communist Europe these days has two prongs: "Cultural Freedom" and "Political Liberty." It is easy in an advanced capitalist country to forget sometimes how closely inter-related the two are. European Communist reformers, however, have never lost sight of this close connection--indeed, they sometimes disguise their political struggles as cultural ones...