Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...
With elections coming up this month in two important West German states, Mende was determined to dissociate himself from Erhard and stake out a popular vote-catching position for his party. In a marathon Cabinet session, Mende argued for holding the tax line. Having made his point, he finally settled for a compromise whereby Erhard pledged to resort to increased taxes only if economizing measures proved insufficient. Next morning the humiliation of the headlines-FREE DEMOCRATS CAVE IN -forced the Free Democrats to reconsider their position. Within a few hours, Mende telephoned Erhard that the F.D.P. had quit the coalition...
...moment, such an agreement seems out of the question. Still, Bonn hummed with rumors of startling new alignments in West German politics. As unlikely as it seemed, whispers rose that the Free Democrats might join with the Social Democratic Party in a coalition government and thus break 17 years of uninterrupted Christian Democrat rule. Mende, eager to establish a bargaining position with Erhard, declared that "in principle" he saw no objection to a coalition with the Socialists. There was also talk of a "grand coalition" between the Socialists and the Christian Democrats, with Interior Minister Paul...
Chances are that in most cases the games will stay, the boycotts will fade, and prices will drift upward. It may be small comfort to the housewives, but food still costs less in the U.S. than in many other countries: in West German supermarkets, steak goes for $2.25 a lb.: in Britain, string beans now command 60? a lb. Most important, Americans spend only 18% of their after-tax income for food, while Europeans-who have far fewer convenience foods -spend from...
...ghost biographer (Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon), identifies the criminal as Albert Henry DeSalvo, 34, a jug-eared, powerfully built amateur boxer and onetime reformatory-school inmate. A resident of Maiden, Mass., where he lived with his German-born wife and two small children, DeSalvo was a semiskilled factory hand and an over-skilled sex deviate. In 1961, he confessed that he was the "Measuring Man," who for more than a year had talked his way into the apartments of gullible women by claiming to be a representative...