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...Died. Fritz von Unruh, 85, German dramatist, novelist and poet famed in the 1920s for his outspoken opposition to militarism; of a stroke; in Diez, Germany. Unruh's moving description of the battle of Verdun in Way of Sacrifice became classic testimony to the cruelty of war. A founder of several anti-Hitler organizations and delegate in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic, Unruh was a staunch anti-Nazi and went into voluntary exile, first in France, then in the U.S., refusing Hitler's offer to make him "the modern Schiller." Upon returning home in 1948, he spoke...
...were the thoughts that crossed my mind as I sat there contemplating the river, and inevitably, life. I reached no conclusions, and then three varsity pairs arrived. Jim Ehrman got out and went down on one knee on the dock. "Oh, my back," he muttered. "That was a bitch," Fritz Hobbs agreed. Hobbs graduated a year ago, but he still comes down to row at Newell. They felt that it had been the fall's toughest workout-a popular opinion at the end of a practice. It was so familiar...
...eine Cocktailparty in Munich two years ago, a bookseller complained about the prevalence of Americanisms to Fritz Neske, an author, and his wife Ingeborg, a linguist. The Neskes decided to catalogue the terms that had become common. Their recently published Dictionary of English and American Expressions in German (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 314 pages; $1.85) contains 3.000 of them. Sales of the dictionary have been brisk, even though it has not yet made die Bestsellerliste...
Forty minutes later, Haifa One started its descent into the darkness. As soon as his DC-8 touched down, Swissair Captain Fritz Schreiber hit the brakes and applied full reverse thrust on the four engines, raising a cloud of desert dust and sand, which was sucked into the ventilation system. "The cabin was filling up with cloudy stuff that smelted like smoke," recalled Cecily Simmon of Utica, N.Y. "You could hardly breathe." Many passengers leaped through emergency doors before it became evident that there was no fire. When the dust settled, the Swissair passengers saw the reason for the fast...
...dining with a friend at a Munich restaurant. Like many other Germans during those disorderly times, he carried a revolver to protect himself against street thugs. Seated alone at an adjacent table was a sullen, self-conscious political comer named Adolf Hitler. "I could easily have shot him," Fritz Reck wrote in his diary four years later. "If I had had an inkling of the role this piece of filth was to play, and of the years of suffering he was to make us endure, I would have done it without a second thought. But I took...