Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aleks in Wonderland. Kosygin castigated U.S. policy from Santo Domingo to Saigon, worked in West German revanchism and, straight-faced, held up Soviet respect for the right of "every people to establish an independent national state of its own" as an example the U.S. might follow. On the Middle East, he was strictly Aleks in Wonderland. Israel was the "unbridled aggressor," guilty of "unprecedented perfidy" and encouraged, of course, by the U.S. He likened Israel's actions to "the heinous crimes perpetrated by the fascists during World War II." Demanding U.N. condemnation of Israeli aggression, immediate and unconditional withdrawal...
Spiritual Measles. Their elders' surprise is understandable. Only a few years ago, German students were determined bookworms, so politically passive that many intellectuals wondered if there was much hope for democracy in a country that must look to such detached youths for its future leaders. The intellectuals are wondering no more. Instead, some are busily trying to dampen the unrest, which they regard as evidence of a West German Kulturkrankheit, a cultural sickness that amounts to a kind of spiritual measles. Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt and other Social Democratic Party chiefs are equally alarmed. Two weeks ago, they...
...Even German high schools are getting into the act, and barely a week goes by without a student outburst. The rallying cry may be Viet Nam, dictatorship in Athens or price hikes at the campus cafeteria. Whatever it is, the excuse for the clamor is of secondary importance. West Germany's students seem determined to mobilize behind any cause that suggests they are carrying the torch of democracy...
...insects become more immune to chemical insecticides, scientists are developing other weapons against them. Like sex. By encouraging the mating of mosquitoes that are incapable of producing offspring, a West German scientist has wiped out the disease-bearing mosquito population of a Burmese village. And, the attraction that proved so fatal in Burma, he reported to a recent health conference in Washington, can have similar results elsewhere...
...cytoplasm (the protoplasm surrounding the cell nucleus) between the Paris and Hamburg strains of mosquitoes. Because of this difference, the egg cells of the females of one strain could not accept the sperm cells from males of the other strain, causing the female to lay infertile eggs. This Franco-German incompatibility was not unique. In succeeding years, Laven discovered 19 additional strains of common mosquitoes that could not produce offspring when mated with other strains...