Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tripartite British-German-U.S. talks in London on the question of Anglo-American forces in West Germany, Wilson's representative argued that Britain's pound and balance-of-payments position were so strained that the government would have to slash its 55,000-man British Army of the Rhine by two-thirds unless the West Germans helped to offset its foreign-exchange costs of $250 million a year. But also last week Wilson jetted to The Hague on his fifth mission to Common Market countries and reiterated a now familiar theme. His argument: the pound has become...
...years ago, a nattily dressed German climbed three flights of stairs to a shabby, document-cluttered flat in Vienna's Rudolfplatz, sat down to face Simon Wiesenthal. Said the visitor, an ex-Gestapo agent: "I know where you can find Franz Stangl-but it is going to cost...
...smaller parts were nicely done. Cutler, by some magic process, manages to make humor out of grotesque, voweled mumbling--and, more important, keeps the device from swelling into a gigantic bore. Clayton Koelb is a lusty schnitzel, the Viennese whose speech problem is ignorance of French. Koelb's German is clean, his legs are in fine order, and his desire to bed some Fraulein is unshakable...
Until now, even though West Germany and East Germany issued separate passports to their citizens, the legal concept prevailed that all Germans, regardless of whether they lived in West or East Germany, shared the same nationality. East Germany's own 1949 constitution endorsed that concept, and West Germany still maintains it. But Ulbricht's new law puts to death that idea in his so-called German Democratic Republic. From now on, a citizen of the G.D.R. is only that; he no longer shares a common nationality with his brothers in West Germany. Behind the law, of course...
...came out ahead of all the other 360 candidates in the Athens bar exams. Reason: Georgakakis, 33, has no eyes, an artificial right hand, and only one finger on his left hand that has any sense of touch. A onetime Cretan shepherd boy who received his disabilities from a German mine explosion in 1944, Georgakakis uses the tip of his tongue to "read" Braille, got through law school by tape-recording and memorizing 60,000 pages of legislation. Highly impressed by his showing, the bar examiners took an unprecedented step: they urged every imaginable government and business leader to hire...