Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Finally, in music building, he caught sight of Professor Edward Burlingame Hill, a music professor who was about to leave for a vacation in New Hampshire. Hanfstaengl, a tall, strapping man, accosted Hill and insisted that he take the statues, one of Schopenhauer, the other of Van Gluck, another German composer. Hill could find room only for the Van Gluck replica, but he did turn out to be a friendly man, and heand Hanfy spent the afternoon in Boston, antique stores...
Other gains in compatibility are planned. After intense and sometimes heated negotiations between Bonn and Washington, the U.S. seems ready to put a 120-mm West German gun on most models of its new XM1 main battle tank. Bonn is considering giving its Leopard II tank an American engine...
...tactical radio network. Completely unifying the system, however, is a project that could cost billions of dollars. Logistics, especially the resupplying of units after combat begins, is "a horrible mishmash," according to an Administration strategist. While it would be possible, in time of crisis, to strengthen a German division with a Belgian battalion, this unit would continue to be supplied by the Belgians, even down to rations. As a first step toward untangling the potential mess, NATO has created the post of Assistant Secretary General for Logistics...
...should Ceauşescu be sniping so earnestly at Moscow just now? Some West German analysts, noting a cryptic Ceausescu reference to "counterrevolutionary elements" being stirred up elsewhere "to rise against their governments," speculate that he may have uncovered a Kremlin-backed plot against him. Whatever the cause, Ceauşescu's performance has been popular in Rumania, which probably cannot divert more resources to its military without further straining a weak economy that already produces the East bloc's lowest standard of living...
DIED. Otto Kallir, 84, Austrian-born art dealer who introduced and promoted the famed American primitive painter known as Grandma Moses; in New York City. A Viennese art merchant who fled his country after the Nazi invasion, Kallir opened a gallery in New York in 1939 specializing in German and Austrian expressionism. He became best known, however, for presenting the works of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the Hoosick Falls, N.Y., resident who did not start painting seriously until age 76. "I may be prejudiced," Kallir once said of his client, who died at age 101 in 1961, "but . . . history will...