Word: franz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prep-school student in New England, were in the record crowd of 77,691 watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele and introduced him to a delighted David. Was Kissinger a Cosmos rooter? Said he: "If you know anything about the passions aroused by soccer, you'd know no professional...
...celebrations, folks in Spartanburg, S.C., do not limit themselves to just the usual American holidays. Last week, for instance, a few days after the Fourth of July, they all turned out for Bastille Day. French Consul Jacqueline Dietrich borrowed a spit from a German neighbor, ordered supplies from Franz Kastner's gourmet delicatessen (Perrier water, lox and asparagus), invited the Swiss consul and representatives from Spartanburg's 40 European companies to celebration and song. Rudolf Mueller, manager of Menzel, Inc., a German-owned plant that makes textile machinery, was not there this time, but his mind was fixed...
...Frederick Franz, a short and spry 83, who on June 22 quietly succeeded the late Nathan Knorr to become the fourth leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses. For a century now, this most contentious of faiths has pressed upon an unwilling audience the message that mankind is nearing the End. Franz, a bachelor who has labored in the sect's headquarters since 1920, will not be surprised if he lives to see the destruction of the world's political order in the Battle of Armageddon, which will usher in Christ's 1,000-year reign...
...Franz was planning on a career as a Presbyterian minister in 1913 when his brother sent him some tracts from the Watch Tower Society. He soon decided that the Watch Tower offered the one true interpretation of the Bible. The next year he dropped out of the University of Cincinnati without completing his junior year; he saw no sense in remaining because the movement's founder, Charles Taze Russell, had announced Oct. 1, 1914, as the date for Christ's Second Coming. Franz recalls with a wisp of a smile: "We expected the end of this system...
Asked about 1975, Franz now says that the 6,000-year chronology is correct, but the seventh day of Creation did not begin until Eve was created. Thus the date for the End has to be extended by the amount of time between the advent of Adam and of Eve-an interval not yet revealed (previous Witness publications had stated that Adam and Eve were created in the same year...