Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German political scene. The only man who approaches Adenauer's stature is the Socialists' Kurt Schumacher. With sharp, sardonic intelligence and fierce oratory, one-armed, one-legged Schumacher accuses Adenauer of being dominated by Ruhr industrialists and the Roman Catholic Church, belabors him because some former Nazis have drifted into his party. Other leading Socialists: hulking Carlo Schmid, able party strategist, and West Berlin's tough Mayor Ernst Reuter, who has again & again defied the Russians in their own backyard...
...relies for advice have no official rank. One is Robert Pferdmenges, partner in the Cologne banking firm of Salomon Oppenheim & Co., and, unlike many a Ruhr magnate, no Nazi supporter; he acts as Adenauer's economic counsel. The other is boyish-looking, 45-year-old Herbert Blankenhorn, a former German diplomat who served in the prewar German embassy in Washington; his task is to smooth Adenauer's relations with the Allies...
...Former Vice President John Nance Garner had no time for dawdling on his 81st birthday in Uvalde, Texas. He spent the day shelling pecans gathered from his own grove, figured the work would net him around...
...opened its doors with but one entrance requirement: the ability to learn, however slowly. Soon 17 children came-most of them thin and staring youngsters suffering from nervous instability and poor muscular control. With the children came volunteer teachers: an ex-G.I. from the University of Denver, a former schoolmarm whose own son was born mentally defective, a young Negro woman who was studying psychology, one Ph.D. candidate and two undergraduates from the Denver university...
Author Bowles, 38, a composer and former music critic, has lived since 1947 in the casbah of Tangier. His little-magazine verse and a handful of short stories had already won him cheers from Manhattan's horizon-watching literati. The Sheltering Sky, with its mixture of emotional nausea, intellectual despair and desert primitivism, will come close to justifying their hopes...