Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pine-tree forests, Forbath chatted with Russian soldiers and officers, who talked amiably about their mission and offered him tea. While some other correspondents were running into trouble with both the Russian and the Czechoslovak authorities, Forbath was not prevented from visiting and viewing, perhaps because he speaks both German and Hungarian, the native tongue of most Slovaks in the area...
...same time, the Soviets busily built a rationale for possible military action. They charged that new hoards of arms hidden away for insurrectionists had been discovered in Czechoslovakia. The Prague government denied it. Privately, Czechoslovak officials claimed that a cache of U.S.-made guns discovered near the West German border last month was probably planted there by Russian troops as a pretext for intervention, should one be required...
...production had its virtues. Aided by Karl Boehm's lively and sensitive conducting, Wolfgang gave intimate poignancy to the often-slighted scene in which the knight, Von Stolzing. works out his song for the mastersinger's competition. At the end, Wolfgang toned down the eulogy to German art by the cobbler, Hans Sachs (at which German audiences used to rise reverently to their feet), and closed the opera on Sachs's more characteristic note of skepticism and resignation: "Folly, all is folly...
...often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since 1932 the world's tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif., New Haven-based Kevin Roche has designed a three-tier museum, with the roof of each tier serving as a broad, verdant terrace. Philadelphia's innovative Louis Kahn, whom...
...city. Not the least of the obstacles to economic expansion is a critical shortage of workers. West Berlin's labor problem became acute when the Ulbricht government put up the Wall in 1961, thus depriving the city's Western sector of its 60,000 East German workers. Native labor, meanwhile, is difficult to keep at home, since the average hourly wage ($1.25) runs some 10% below that in West Germany. A city without suburbs-and hence commuters -West Berlin is also plagued by a housing shortage that often forces newcomers to live for months in workers' dormitories...