Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amused by your article on Beate Uhse's West German "sporting goods" stores [May 2]. But no wonder the poor gal doesn't try to sell her wares here. She would be hauled into jail on her first day, while next door an American sporting goods store, selling enough guns to kill every cop in Chicago, would be within...
...West Germany, but over the past two decades 25,000 people have reported to the authorities that they were asked to spy. In the same period, 3,500 persons have been convicted of treason or treasonous relations. Yet, instead of becoming inured to the rampancy of spooks, the West German press continues in full cry on the spy-exposé trail...
...German press last week titillated its readers with two new tales of espionage. The first was the memoirs of KGB Lieut. Colonel Evgeny Runge, 41, who for years passed information collected from his agents through the Soviet embassy in Bonn to Moscow before defecting in 1967. The second concerns Austrian-born Rupert Sigl, who last month ended 16 years of activity for the KGB by defecting to the CIA in West Berlin. According to Die Welt am Sonntag, Sigl took with him the names of 250 Soviet agents working in Germany-a high figure for any spy to know...
...turbulence began with a modest run on the wobbly franc after Charles de Gaulle resigned and speculators became convinced that France would order a long-anticipated devaluation (TIME, May 9). Then, last week, the attack on the franc turned into a far more disruptive rush to buy West German marks. Convinced that economically potent Germany must soon raise the official value of its robust currency, speculators and more conservative businessmen all over the world swapped their money for marks in the expectation of a quick profit. A speculator who converted $2,500,000 into marks, for example, stood...
Miss Hodes quotes Professor Sacks' reference to the intruders as "barbarians." This may have been rather loose use of the term. On the other hand, the chairman of the meeting, Professor Pool, was precisely in point when, as he adjourned the meeting, he recalled the disruption of German universities in the 1930s and labeled the intruders "stormtroopers." Undoubtedly, as Miss Hodes says, the bulk of the intruders were students somewhere. A few, I know, were Harvard students. That they presumably had some intelligence makes all the more inexcusable their blatant violation of the right of others to meet together peacefully...