Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters that had already been published came in at a steady rate. Hard put to keep up with the unending flow of correspondence, one of TIME'S letter writers nevertheless found time to devise a new title for her boss. After reading a World story on a recent German drive to shorten titles, she decided that Maria Luisa Cisneros rated just the opposite treatment and coined the name zuständ-igee Leserbriefeflutabteilungsoberleiterin. In other words: Chief supervisor of the department for answering the flood of letters to the editor...
...declined so sadly since World War II. But as Defense Department researchers continued to look into the matter, the truth turned out to be otherwise. Prisoners in Korea held up no better and no worse than P.O.W.s in other wars. In World War II, so many U.S. prisoners in German and Japanese camps talked so freely that a Defense Department report concluded: "It is virtually impossible for anyone to resist a determined interrogator." In addition to revealing military facts, U.S. prisoners in World War II signed occasional false confessions; yet nothing much was made...
...West Germany, the conscientious objector (or Kriegsdienstverweigerer) need not prove dogmatic pacifism; he must merely convince a local commission of civil servants that he is against the use of force between states. Some 70 chapters of the German War Resisters' League seek to foster that attitude. Aided by leftist student militants, the chapters have held thousands of parades in the last 14 months, lectured to schoolchildren and demonstrated at military shows...
...productions he will mount at the Met next season, Bing simultaneously unleashed a blast at the waiting critics. "What is the press? Six or eight people with their own opinions," snapped Bing. "If critics were acrobats, they would all long ago be dead." ∙∙∙ Ill lay: German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, 55, in Bonn with an attack of pleurisy that caused him to cancel last week's scheduled trip to Asia; baseball's Casey Stengel, 77, recovering in Glendale, Calif, from major surgery for a perforated peptic ulcer; Lawyer Percy Foreman, 66, in Houston with...
Until the past year, little was known of Tanzanite. Among the first to realize its value was a Goanese prospector named Manuel de Souza, who stumbled across a pocket of crystals in Tanzania in the summer of 1967. Samples were sent for appraisal to German lapidaries, who recognized the stones' potential for use in jewelry. Other prospectors dug in, and the area of that first find is now pockmarked with holes. "It is all rather like the Klondike," says Dr. John M. Saul, a New York geologist with three claims in the area...