Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside London's famed Old Bailey last week, Britons by the hundreds queued up hopefully for gallery seats. Inside the venerable courthouse, facing a jury on terms unprecedented in the long annals of English law, sat a slim, stolid, German-born Canadian immigrant named Gunther Fritz Podola...
...Bonn last week scholarly, white-haired Professor Theodor Heuss, 75, stepped down after serving his constitutional limit of two five-year terms in the largely honorific office of President of West Germany. By so doing, he added a page to German history: never before had the German people witnessed the spectacle of an elected chief of state peaceably surrendering power to his duly elected successor...
...televised joint session of Parliament, scholarly, white-haired Dr. Heinrich Lübke, 64, onetime West German Agriculture Minister and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's hand-picked choice (TIME, June 29 et seq.) was sworn in as Heuss's successor. There was no pomp or strut about the transfer ceremony; 106 of Parliament's 564 vacationing members did not even bother to attend, and government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute...
...German-made Tower is technically first-rate, precisioned as a Mercedes, and German-born Actress Palmer is a suave, consummate performer. The camera ranges so fluently through her glass prison it seems a pity that the action it catches is mostly senseless Sturm und Drang...
...perhaps the next five years, will be a time of testing for the program. Revisions may have to be made, for some of the present seminars may never escape beyond a desultory pursuit of some dilettantish goal, whereas others may be too specialized (for example those on sunspots or German historical thinking since 1945) and encourage freshmen to enter a cozy academic niche prematurely...