Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outraged by the fact that your "Tragedy at Lynchburg" [Dec. 29] article totally neglected to put even the slightest blame for what happened on the owner of the German shepherd dogs. Dog ownership carries with it a responsibility not unlike that of parenthood, and since TIME was so careful to point out that latter responsibility in a recent Essay, how could you have failed to recognize that Mr. Ernest G. Floyd's irresponsibility was the true cause of this tragedy...
Jack M. Stein, professor of German, will head the Lowell House course...
Robert H. Spaethling, associate professor of German, said his course also aimed at standardized grading through department exams, and group grading sessions. The final grade is an average of the objective exam grade (teaching fellows do not grade their students' papers) and the class grade given by the teaching fellow, and his grade can only differ from the exam mark by two notches (a half grade) unless the course head gives special permission for a greater dispcreprancy...
...diplomatic reporting." AFN Correspondent Tom Kuelbs, who had built a reputation for sound political reporting from Bonn, was suddenly off the air and wire reports were read instead. Kuelbs was told he could tape his material if he did not interject personal judgments. When he got an interview with German National Democratic Leader Adolf von Thadden, it was rejected because no wire-service reporter had been present. Since then, a few interviews taped by Kuelbs have been used, but with his voice edited...
...save people from capture, Wolf falsified travel papers, appealed to the German ambassador over the heads of the SS and the Gestapo. He even met the great art expert Bernard Berenson, a Jew and a U.S. citizen, at the villa where friends hid the old man for 13 months. For keeping that one secret alone, Wolf could have wound up in a concentration camp. But he went much further. He collaborated with the Florentines in hiding paintings and sculpture, and worked desperately through the church and the German ambassador to keep the city from becoming a military objective, although...