Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimately to be flown out to the "mainland" of West Germany. Since the majority of the refugees are young, their flight is turning East Germany into a nation of oldsters; it is also creating a labor shortage in East Germany. Since 1949 more than 2,000,000 people have fled East Germany-more than three times the natural population increase. Says Willy Brandt: "When East Germans ask me what to do ... I tell them to stay as long as they can manage." His reason: the fear that if the population drain continues, the Russians may begin to resettle East Germany...
Eight Hours a Day. Darvas studied economics at the University of Budapest, fled Hungary for Turkey in World War II (he still holds Turkish citizenship), methodically trained eight hours a day to become a dancer. He came to the U.S. in 1951, got interested in the market in 1952 when a Toronto nightclub owner paid him off in a mining stock that promptly trebled. (He sold it at that point; it later collapsed.) Darvas trained for the market just as methodically as he had studied his dancing, read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spent eight...
Putzi, as the piano-playing Hanfstaengl was called, had been a supporter of Hitler from before the 1923 putsch and became the Fuehrer's "court jester" until he fled Germany...
...political unity by giving three Cabinet posts each to opposition parties, only two to his own A.D. (Seven "independents" are all trusted Betancourt friends.) With a solid majority in Congress and state governorships, A.D. is launching a fight for the labor unions, heavily infiltrated by Communists after the dictator fled...
...week the country was confronted with the first serious crack in Touré's official family. After a stormy night session, the Council of Ministers announced that Camara Faraban, once a Minister of Education and one of Touré's close friends, had hopped a plane and fled the country. A Paris-trained lawyer who is married to a Frenchwoman, Faraban had no liking for the direction in which the nation was going; but the Council had a classic Marxist explanation for his flight. It was, said the government, tied in with the "whole network of spies...