Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Claude Roy Kirk Jr., 41, Florida's first Republican Governor since 1872; and Erika Mittfeld, 32, a dashing German-born blonde; he for the third time, she for the second; in Palm Beach...
Died. J. Robert Oppenheimer, 63, renowned wartime atomic physicist and center of a subsequent storm over his loyalty; after a long illness; in Princeton, N.J. Tall, thin and reserved, the son of German immigrants, Oppenheimer was a pioneer student of relativity and quantum theory at Caltech in 1943 when he was called upon to lead the Los Alamos scientists in their race to give the U.S. the world's first nuclear weapon. It was a task he discharged brilliantly, and then in peacetime, as chief adviser to the A.E.G., turned around to argue bitterly against carrying on with...
Died. Sig Ruman, 82, German-born character actor whose fate it was to be come Hollywood's idea of the typical "Kraut," the beefy, blustering, blundering seriocomic German, a role he played in endless films, most notably as Sergeant Schultz in 1953's Stalag 17; of a heart attack; in Julian, Calif...
...calls out to his wife. "I'll be back this afternoon." She keeps the bricks wet, but he does not come back that afternoon. She does not see him again until the bricks and both their lives and all of Europe have been ground to rubble under the German jackboot...
...Hungary a year later, the cheery clod is arrested once more. He is tortured by the Gestapo and condemned to a German labor camp, but he soon finds an excuse to see the misfortune as a blessing in disguise. Recognized by the camp commandant as a pure Aryan type, he is set free and inducted into the SS. After the war, to be sure, his SSimilation arouses suspicion, and he is sentenced to a long prison term. But then, he reasons, if he had not been brought to trial, his wife would not have seen his face in the paper...