Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nams for his stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers-along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara-of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military experts have compared him with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. "You know when he's in charge," said a top Pentagon official last week. "You can feel him there." Yet Giap had no formal training as a soldier. "The only military academy I have been to," he boasted after Dienbienphu, "is that of the bush...
...healthy proportion of Harvard and Radcliffe students (60 to 70 per cent according to Jack M. Stein, Chairman of the German Department) continue language study here voluntarily, so the modifications of the requirement won't depopulate Harvard language courses. Next year the CEP may be able to forego its annual and always lengthy theoretical debate on language study. For the student the change may not be the optimum solution, but it is the only politically feasible one and will eliminate the worst hardships of the present scheme...
...chill of a week in November, those two forces suddenly swept around behind the Nazis and encircled almost 300,000 of them in a giant nutcracker. As the cruel Russian winter began in earnest, temperatures fell to 49° below zero. Frozen German corpses piled up like logs, many still clad in light uniforms. German rations ran out, and proud troops began to eat the flesh of horses, cats and rats. Hermann Goring's airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over...
...West German city of Braunschweig owes its reputation to a pair of dissimilar products: smoked liverwurst and Rolleiflex cameras. To the dismay of the 48-year-old family firm of Rollei-Werke, Franke & Heidecke, the cameras have proved the more perishable of the two. Although Rollei's famed twin-lens reflex practically revolutionized photography when it was introduced in 1929, business began to go stale in the late '50s when its patents ran out, cheap imitations rolled in, and Rollei was caught without new developments...
...Rollei is rolling again. The company has called a halt to its long dependence on the 120-mm. Rolleiflex, priced at $260-to-$450 in the U.S., and is focusing on the growing market for smaller 35-mm. models. Though overall German camera sales tumbled by 7% last year, Rollei's rose by 40% from $9,000,000 to an estimated $12.5 million. So strong is demand that the company looks for sales increases of 25% this year and next-if the factory can handle...