Word: georg
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This titillating tidbit is only one among hundreds of objects which prove definitely what Design Research, Georg Jensen, and Bonniers have been hinting at--plastic can be elegant and expressive in its own right, as well as functional...
...most unusual court appearance in Germany's postwar history. On the witness stand in Bonn's criminal court sat the Chancellor of West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He had been subpoenaed to testify in the war crimes trial of a former diplomat who was charged with arranging transportation for 11,343 Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio...
There seems to be little doubt that Willy Brandt will be his party's stan dard-bearer in the national elections, in which he will probably face Christian Democratic Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. Though he was roughed up by rebellious students and met with cries of "Labor traitor!" when he arrived outside the auditorium in Nurnberg, his party gave him only pleasant treatment inside. By a 325-to-8 vote, the delegates re-elected him party leader and cheered his new policies. Those policies are certain to cause severe strains within the coalition Cabinet, especially since Chancellor Kiesinger...
Difficult to Escape. Even though they had earlier insisted that Lübke remain silent, Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his Cabinet now decided that Lübke should take his case to the people. All three parties in the Bundestag issued strong statements of support for him. German political leaders knew, after all, that Lübke had been no Nazi and that he had even spent 20 months in Nazi prisons during the 1930s. The barrack plans that he signed were probably for forced laborers at such installations as the German rocket facility of Peenemünde. Those...
...blast from Aida, 232 guests marched into the dining room at the Birnam Wood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "It is not everyone...