Word: georges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were really "being educated." But his departure was also regretted by many who enjoyed the spirit of independence which he had brought to the College. A humorous commentary on the controversy over Hutchins' policies is provided in a satire of the University of Chicago. The Dollar Diploma, written by Georg Mann in 1960. One faculty critic had this to say on what Mann termed Individualized Education...
...professional Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's last Chancellor-not to mention his distaste for Erhard's pro-American policies. The result was some bad days for Franco-German cooperation, formally set up by treaty in 1963. Last week, when West Germany's new Chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, made his first official visit to Paris, De Gaulle met a man whose mind and manners he could admire. Learned and elegant, a longtime friend of France whose own Swabian home is only an hour's drive from the French border, Kiesinger charmed De Gaulle by trading erudite toasts...
When Kurt Georg Kiesinger was first proposed as German Chancellor, much of the world's press expressed shock that a man with a Nazi past could be considered for the post. Kiesinger answered the attacks by citing the enthusiastic support he received from Germany's only nationwide Jewish news paper, Allgemeine Unabhangige Judische Wochenzeitung (General Independent Jewish Weekly). Emphasizing that he had been an inactive, reluctant party member, he referred doubters to the paper's editor. "Ask my friend Karl Marx," he said...
...week's issue, as a matter of fact, we had considered a cover story on Japan's Premier Sato. But the editors decided that the news about the formation of Germany's new government was more urgent. Thus, this week's cover on Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger-who represents another example of how former foes can change...
Before the Bundestag delegates stepped tall, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62, holding in one hand the constitution of the republic and raising his other with its fingers held as for a blessing. Kiesinger, who until a few weeks ago was virtually unknown outside West Germany and known within it mainly as the Minister-President of a German state, then took the oath of office as head of an unprecedented government: a grand coalition of the two major parties?the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats?that have bitterly fought each other for years. A union of black...